Competing against myself
On the spur of the moment, I bought myself a pedometer over the Christmas break.Partly this was because of Amy Tenderich's book Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes. I'm about half way through the book, and it really does a good job at emphasizing the importance of exercise.
We finally have a treadmill in the house, so that helps me for the 25 minutes or so when I'm on it. But for the rest of the day, or the days when I'm not on it, I really don't pay any attention to how much walking exercise I'm doing.
So now I put the pedometer on first thing in the morning and take it off last thing at night. Then I'm using dHealth.net (which I found out about courtesy of Dave Mendosa's posting) to track the steps I take each day.
Guess what I found out?
For me, it's very challenging to wear this thing. Each day I have it on, I'm really focused on trying to break 7,000 steps. So far (one week and counting) I've got about a 50% success rate, but it's really motivating me to try and walk more and walk faster.
Can't be bad.
If you're interested, the pedometer I purchased is something like this one on Amazon (and yes I'll get a little something if you purchase this one from Amazon).
I actually got mine at an Olympia sports for about $16 (battery included), the model is an Accusplit Alliance 1590 and it's working just fine so far.
I'm hoping to work up to an average of 8,500 steps per day. I'll let you know how it goes.
Labels: exercise, health, walking
posted by Bernard @ 9:49 PM
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