pedometer

[lozzzz]

Does anybody use a pedometer and do their allotted 10,000 steps a day?

[Curiouscol]

yes, I have one altho I don't use it everyday. I only manage the 10 000 steps if I walk to and from work as well as all the bits in between. Not sure but I think it's a mile each way...

[karen3110]

I have one and used it quite often but gave up after a while.  I used to do over and abover the 10k steps you are supposed to do a day, but I walk into and home from work everyday (which is 2miles each way) as well as about 50 laps around the office on a daily basis. I was actually quite surprised that despite the amount of walking I do on a daily basis it was only coming up to 14k, I thought it would be much much more.

[lozzzz]

I do about 12-16k aday (dog walking) apparently this should be all the exercise I need.I certainly feel fitter.

[georgit79]

i used to use one but it recorded steps even when I was sitting still, so I binned it.

[Sasha13]

I used to work in retail and used a pedometer one day. I gave up when I'd walked 12,000 steps by mid afternoon!

[FP]

I binned mine too Georgit.  I went for a three mile walk and it registered 76 steps!

[PaulnCarole]

My hubby went to the local paper shop and clocked up 400 steps on the way there. On the way back he clocked up over a thousand, using exactly the same route! (Except reversing it of course).

I bent down to tie my shoelace and clocked up ten steps. So we concluded that they are not very reliable and scrapped the idea.