What is the best pedometer? Pedometers count steps. Step counting is a great way to keep active, aiming to increase your steps by 2000 per day towards a goal of 10,000 steps per day. The best pedometers can calculate and display other interesting stats such as distance, calories burned, speed, elapsed time, steps per minute, and function as a stopwatch and alarm. Some pedometers have fancy features such as talking, playing music or reading your heart rate.
1. Omron HJ-112 Pedometer
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This advanced design lets you wear it on your belt or carry it in your pocket, clip it to your bra, or wear it anywhere it is perpendicular to the ground. The Omron HJ-112 counts steps, calculates distance and calories burned. It also tracks aerobic steps separately when walking or jogging more than 60 steps per minute or more than 10 minutes continuously. The Omron HJ-112 has a 7-day memory, a feature I prize greatly. It is absolutely silent - no clicking or rattling! It comes with a security leash to ensure you don't lose it. It is top rated for accuracy by a consumer magazine.
2. Yamax Digiwalker CW-701 Pedometer
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The CW-701 is the update to the highly-accurate SW-701. Beyond step counting, it displays distance, calories burned, clock and activity time. Yamax beefed up the mechanism with a long-lasting spring coil and heavy coated pendulum, which they claim improves accuracy 2.5% over the SW models. The belt clip is now in study metal. But the biggest change is in the display, with two lines to show multiple data. It now has a 7-day daily memory for steps, distance, calories, and activity time. It keeps a 2-week total for each as well. This is a great upgrade.
3. Omron HJ-720 ITC Pedometer
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The Omron HJ-720ITC Pedometer Pedometer is a full-featured pedometer (steps, distance, calories) that also allows you to upload it all to enjoy graphs and charts of steps, aerobic steps, distance, calories and fat burned. The pedometer is of an advanced design that tolerates more tilt than many. It is also absolutely silent and very accurate. For the same price as other advanced pedometers, you also upload the data to your own computer to set your goals and see your progress. You keep the data on your own computer, rather than uploading it to a web site as with some other pedometers.
4. New-Lifestyles NL-2000 Pedometer
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A great pedometer for those who want to count steps and estimate calories burned. The automatic seven day memory helps you track your walking. It ranked tops for accuracy both for tracking daily step counts and for walking on a treadmill.
5. Yamax® Digi-Walker™ SW-200 Pedometer
It only counts steps, but is considered the gold standard by pedometer researchers who use it as their most accurate reference. You can't go wrong - there is only a reset button.6. Sportline Fitness Pedometer 360
Loaded with features yet it is small, quiet, and accurate. The dual-line display shows distance and the other data - steps, calories, speed, steps-per-minute, time of day. It times your workout and can display the total for the past 7 days. The clip holds it securely to your belt, better than some models. The flip case protects the buttons.
7. Sportline Pedometer 330
Only counts steps, for a very inexpesive price. Perfect for those who want to count their steps each day with a small investment. Cover prevents you from accidentally resetting it. Rated tops for accuracy and reliability.8. Walk4Life LS 2525 Pedometer
An excellent multi-function pedometer to count steps and walking time, and calculate calories burned and distance. Was shown to be 99% accurate in counting steps on a treadmill, less so for wearing all day.9. Freestyle Pacer Pro Pedometer
It's tiny, it's quiet, and I found it to be quite accurate. This pedometer counts steps, measures time spent exercising, calculates distance and calories and speed. It has a flip case to prevent pushing buttons accidentally.10. Sportline Talking Pedometer
Don't want to look at your pedometer? The Voice Announcement speaks your calories burned, number of steps taken, distance traveled and total time. Set the Auto Voice Announcement and the pedometer speaks the numbers displayed on the LCD once you reach your programmed goal. The Intelligent Counting features eliminate any junk steps.Pedometer Opinions
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