Pedometers As Your On Board Calorie Counter Tool

Track your fitness and weight loss program by using your pedometer calorie counter feature. Walk smart, know how many fat and carb calories you burn each exercise session and let your pedometer do the record keeping for you.

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Getting Maximum Benefit From Your Pedometer As A Calorie Counter

• It's All About Relevant Information. Using your pedometer as a calorie counter is useful only when your have prior bio-information such as body weight ... BMI or body mass index showing body composition relative to fat, muscle, bone ... age ... and so on. Based on your weight ... and exercise intensity or output ... your pedometer microprocessor can crunch through the calculations to determine how many calories you're actually burning. Think of it this way. The amount of energy (think calories) needed to propel a 150 pound woman 3 miles is a mere fraction of the calories needed to propel a 300 pound man the same distance and at the same speed.

• Setting Up Your Pedometer As A Calorie Counter. Simple to read instructions plus a large digital display make set-ups a breeze. Enter your weight and any other "base line" data your pedometer model requires, and then take off. Walking or running. The calorie counter function automatically calculates a current running calorie figure which you can instantly us in order to determine the quality and effectiveness of your exercise each day. For example, a 160-pound woman walking 1-mile at 4 mph will burn almost 100 calories.

• Using Calorie Counter Information. You want to increase fitness, look better, lose weight, recover from a surgery or whatever else may be acting as a drag on your health and outlook. By exploiting your pedometer technical capability plus designing a flexible exercise plan, you can virtually program in the results you're seeking. Here's what you do. Set your starting distance, stride pace, stride length, total exercise time and so on. Give yourself several weeks to adjust to this goal level of, say 2000 to 3000 steps. Then bump-up by 5% or an amount you're comfortable with. Study your numbers ... monitor how you feel.. continue to push yourself along and you'll get great results.

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