Omron Walking Style II Pedometer

From inserting the battery it asks for the time, your weight, and then your stride length (which it explains how to calculate) and then you're ready to start walking! It comes with a belt attachment and a strap which makes carrying it a lot easier. Over the course of the day it records how many steps you have made, calculates how many calories you will have burned from these steps and even calculates an estimate of how far you are liable to have walked. Once it reaches midnight on the built-in clock your daily exertions are reset and your activities are stored on a 7-day memory. Stunning!

My one and only criticism is that if you happen to travel in the car whilst carrying it, the occasional bumps can add to your readout, and since it can't be turned off this can be a tiny problem.

Otherwise this pedometer is fantastic. Great value for money, it is small and compact but most important of all its been motivating me to walk more and more each and every day.


The best pedometer for hill-walking   March 25, 2008
Bluebell (UK)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful

At last a pedometer that works for hill-walking. I've tried four different pendulum pedometers in the past that have been reasonably accurate on the flat but all were hopeless for hill walking: always greatly under-estimating the number of steps and hence the distance walked. It must be something to do with the pendulum system not being able to cope with the ascents and descents of hills. I've just given the Omron pedometer a tough test on a walk with steep hill that rises 1000feet in 1 mile of distance. I clipped the Omron on one side of my belt and one of my older pedometers on the other side. The Omron correctly measured the hill ascent as being approximately 1.6km (i.e. a mile) whereas the pendulum pedometer measure 0.37km. Over the whole walk the Omron correctly measured the distance (I plotted it with dividers on an OS map) whereas the other pedometer only registered half the distance. The Omron gives an estimate of calories burned, but this only applies to walking on the flat. Hill walking can treble or quadruple the rate of energy expenditure.

If you don't mind working in cm (to input you stride length) and km (for the distance covered) this is an excellent advance in pedometer design.


What a cracker   January 29, 2007
Sir Endipity (Swindon, UK)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful

Not cheap at over 20 but this is the Rolls Royce of pedometers. Easily secured in a pocket etc and it tots up the steps in 24 hour periods so you always have last 7 days data. Shows steps, Km, Fat burnt in gram, and calories. If this little beauty doesn't do what you want then you don't want a pedometer.




Keep Track To Succeed!   September 29, 2008
Harold
33 out of 36 found this review helpful

I have an Omron pedometer while my wife has another brand. I have to say that pedometers are probably one of the best (and most fun) ways to stay in shape and lose weight. Set up is easy, and once you're done with that, there's nothing left to do but to do it!

So how much should you walk? The most common recommendation is 10,000 steps a day- which is equivalent to about 5 miles. They get the 10,000 number from studies showing that adults who get this much exercise a day are healthy.

However know too that some research is beginning to show that some populations might need more, or can get by with less. For instance children may need more steps than this and some older adults may not be able to sustain 10,000 steps/day (one study found that a sample of HEALTHY older adults involved in weekly exercise programs reached an average of about 6,500 steps- suggesting that older adults may be able to get by with just 6,000 steps a day or so).

So what if you just want to lose weight? Well, I suggest starting out by first seeing how many steps you get on an average day at your current weight. Then, try to add steps each day, working up to 10,000 over time.

See where your weight is at when you reach the 10,000 step level, and if you still need to lose more, try to add another 2,000 steps a day. Keep in mind that each 2,000-2,500 steps is about a mile, or 100 calories for a 150-pound person.

So if you're looking to drop a few pounds, or simply get fitter, try a pedometer! Also recommend The Sixty-Second Motivator for anyone who needs more motivation to stick with an exercise program.



A quality piece of kit   August 13, 2007
Alec G Moonshiner (Kendal, England)
49 out of 54 found this review helpful

My wife and I both bought one of these when we read that you should try and walk 10,000 paces every day. It is extremely accurate at counting paces and has some handy additional functions too. For example, it gives a reading of how many calories/how much fat you have burned in your daily activities. I know that it can't be anything like precise but at least you feel you are achieving something! At the price, it is far and away better quality than anything else around, although I can't see the point in paying half as much again for a different colour when the thing is in your pocket most of the time. Even when my wife and I get ours mixed up, it is easy to tell them apart by checking the weight and pace length you program in when you set it up.