Pedometer

[Lorraine-Mary]

Can anyone recommend a good pedometer, I want to record my walking. Have looked online and the prices can go quite high, I just want something at a reasonable cost that does a good job and easy to set up.

[Airbornepara]

Map my walk app is good and accurate! Best of all it's free!

[Lorraine-Mary in reply to Airbornepara]

Oh great thank you I will have a look at that. Love hearing the word Free xx

[Lorraine-Mary in reply to Lorraine-Mary]

Does it record how many steps you do?

[Airbornepara in reply to Lorraine-Mary]

Yes, it's a really good app.

Can run in the background on your mobile.

[sueper]

Mapmywalk is great and records distance. Steps do not necessarily = distance and I found that eventually I wanted to move off steps to distance which is why I used mapmywalk. Then I got fed up looking at my phone to check my distance so graduated to a GPS watch - yes they aren't cheap but they are so convenient I feel it was worth the investment.

Enjoy your walking

[Foodie87]

I find all the apps to track walks etc drain phone battery very quickly.

I have been using a Fitbit 'one' for a while.

It seems very accurate and due to its little size can be clipped wherever, bra strap, belt loops etc, so no one needs to see you are wearing it

[PeaQueen]

I've been using a cheap pedometer called a Digi-Walker for many years after having them recommended to me. It's made by a company called Yamax and you can find them online quite easily. It's a simple plastic thingy which clips onto your waistband and it uses a small battery which lasts about 2 years. I've found these to be really brilliant – although they do have limitations. In order to measure distance walked, you have to calibrate them to your own walking stride ... and it then estimates distance based on how many steps you've taken. I find my stride tends to be a lot shorter when I'm getting tired at the end of a walk than it is when I'm first bounding out of the door, so it's not accurate in the way a GPS would be. But on the plus side, it measures all the steps you take while wandering around the house or the office and it's nice to see how much those mount up over the course of a day.

There's a bewildering choice of different models available with extra bells and whistles, but if you simply want something that counts the number of steps you're taking then the cheapest, bottom of the range model is really all you need.