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Tilly2 | 18:48 Mon 14th Jan 2019 | How it Works
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When out walking, my pedometer tracks the number of steps accurately but when I am line dancing the step count is far too low. Today, I have danced for one and a half hours and only clocked up just over a thousand steps. That can't be right.

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Pedometers simply aren't designed to measure the types of movements used in dancing. You'll get a better estimate for non-walking activities by using a conversion chart, such as this one: https://www.arhs-nc.org/live-healthy/data/StepConversionChart.pdf
18:54 Mon 14th Jan 2019
Is it a watch Tilly
Pedometers simply aren't designed to measure the types of movements used in dancing. You'll get a better estimate for non-walking activities by using a conversion chart, such as this one:
https://www.arhs-nc.org/live-healthy/data/StepConversionChart.pdf
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No, RR. It's a Tanita pedometer which I keep in my pocket.

One of these.

https://www.tanita.com/en/pd724/
Pedometers are notorious for their inaccuracy.
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Buenchico, that is a really useful chart. Thank you for finding that.
The movements of the body while dancing and the movements of the body while walking are different so maybe that's where the problem is. You should manually adopt it like 30 steps higher for an hour and a half of dancing, in my opinion.

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