If you're having trouble getting motivated to keep to your fitness program ... or if you haven't even got off the starting block yet, there's a tiny, inexpensive device that can provide you with all the motivation you need to get out and start moving your body around a bit more. The pedometer, as it's known, can also make you WANT to do it and can even get you to ENJOY doing it! What ... ? ENJOY exercising??? Surely some mistake? Well, no actually. Please read on.
What is a pedometer, you may well ask?
It's a small, compact device used for measuring the number of steps taken. And, as well as measuring the number of steps taken when walking, whether that be as you're wlking round the block, the office or the house, climbing the stairs, mowing the lawn, or doing the shopping.
How Does It Work?
It's small enough to clip to your belt and is fitted with a pendulum which measures one step each time your foot makes contact with the ground.
How Much Does It Cost?
Sometimes pedometers have been given away FREE as part of campaigns by local health authorities to get people moving their bodies more. If you can't find such a campaign in your area, you can buy a pedometer with a reasonable number of features for as little as $20 or even less from some markets or online.
What Exactly Does It Do?
Some very basic models merely count your steps, while others include calories burned, distance walked, speed you've been walking and how long your routine has taken.
Other even more expensive models may include some really fancy things like:
- a soothing voice to tell you how many steps you've taken
- a pulse monitor - a stopwatch
- a radio and headphones so you can listen to your favorite radio station
- a step filter to achieve greater accuracy
- a back light so you can see your pedometer in the dark.
How Do I Set Up My Pedometer?
First you need to enter your height, weight and average stride length.
To work out your stride length, most instruction guides prompt you to count out a number of steps and divide this number by the overall distance you've covered. Once it's set up, just follow the instructions to activate the settings you want to use, clip your pedometer to your belt and off you go.
How Do I Take Readings?
At any point after you've started your routine, you can stop, flip open the pedometer and take a reading. Of course, you shouldn't do this too often as this will interrupt the rhythm of your walk.
You can work out the progress you're making by checking the number of steps taken, the distance you've traveled, the calories you've burned and so on.
How Does This Provide Me More Motivation?
The great thing about wearing a pedometer is that you begin to think about the number of steps you've taken towards your daily target.
It creates a 'walking mindset' and you suddenly start to look for walking opportunities.
If you had to be dragged kicking and screaming to take up a fitness routine, the pedometer is possibly one of the single most important devices you can use to start enjoying exercise.
It's so easy to use and it can transform the way you feel about getting fit. It can take you from resisting the whole idea of exercise, to your really looking forward to it and wanting to do it more.
Why?
Because, after using it for a while, you begin to realize that it's really easy to create opportunities to 'walk' into your daily life which makes it easy to incoprorate excercise into your schedule.
Something you thought was going to be such a grind becomes simple. Did you ever think that was possible?
Well it is. Just get hold of your pedometer and keep wearing it. It can have a really positive effect on your fitness and health.
Remember: the fitter you are the easier it is to say positive and upbeat. The more positive and upbeat you are the more opportunities you'll attract and the more success you'll have.
Love life and live it creatively and on purpose!
Leanne
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