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Coming Out of Physical Dysfunction with Pedometer

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A pedometer is a clock that counts the steps of the person who carries it and is an important tool for athletes and every person who is interested in keeping his health

The pedometer was a great motivator (still is) for my husband in the rehabilitation of his physical dysfunction after a series of difficult diseases such as Multi-System Failure, CVA, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Failure … and more, that attacked him at age of 50 to 56, and left him with physical disabilities, handicapped & deeply depressed

Why is physical activity so important to our health? and our immune system.

How to increase of our physical activity, within our daily tasks

מד צעדים הוא שעון המונה את מספר צעדי האדם שעונד אותו, ומספק מידע על רמת הפעילות. עוזר לנו לשפר את בריאותנו. עזר לבן זוגי לצאת מחוסר תפקוד מוחלט

Pedometer - The Recommended Product

Omron HJ-720ITC

Technical data & Price Comparison

The Full Story – Read How it Works

What is a Pedometer?

The Medical Explanation About the Importance of Physical Activity to our Health

How many steps needed to Prevent Sickness

How far is 2000 Steps ?

How to Increase our Daily Activity

How did the Pedometer Help Us

Pedometers Types

Important Points in Buying a Pedometer

Recommendations

What is a Pedometer?

A pedometer is a clock that counts the steps of the person who carries it by sensing his body motions. It records the daily activity, translating it also to distance & calories and gives a picture of the physical activity done each day.

A pedometer counts the steps of the person who carries it. It was a great motivator (still is) for my husband in the rehabilitation of his physical dysfunction

Wearing a pedometer is a great motivating tool for increasing physical activity.

You can carry the pedometer all day and it will add up all your steps – defining between Aerobic and not aerobic, or carry it only when you go out for a walking workout.

In addition to steps counting - Pedometers have different features such as:

Translating the activity to distance,
Calories,
Measuring the duration of the activity,
Speed estimating,
Defining between Aerobic steps (without stopping) and regular steps,
Timers,
Cocks,
Stopwatches.
The pedometer resets every day at midnight and starts counting your steps again. It can give records up to 7 days back.

The Pedometer is an important tool for athletes and every person who is interested in keeping his health as it reflects our activity situation. Most of the time we are not aware that we did not move enough – and do not understand why we do not feel well.

Click to read The Medical Explanation about The importance of Physical Activity to our Health

The Daily Physical Activity needed to Prevent Sickness

Less than 5,000 steps is considered not enough activity – it is considered a Sedentary activity.

6,000 steps are Ok for good health.

10,000 steps are good for weight loss program – Or 4,000 – 6,000 aerobic steps (uninterrupted) per day.

How far is 2000 Steps ?

2000 steps is about a mile.

But the benefit for health and for weight management don't depend on you walking a mile all at one time, but simple adding in more steps thought the day.

How to Increase Physical Activity within our Daily Tasks
We always feel that we do not have enough time or energy for physical activity, go to the gym, or a walking workout
Here are few ideas how to increase our physical activity within the daily tasks
1.	Phone call – in the age of cellular and wireless phones – each phone call is a good time to walk –at home or at work. As well – if you see that haven't 'walked enough – call your mom/sister/friend/ … and have a nice talk and walk – improve your social life and your physical activity
2.	At work – walk to the person you wish to talk to i/o calling or sending an e-mail.
3.	Make a brake every hour or two, for 3-4 minutes – like a cigarette break – and walk
4.	TV time – during commercials – get up and walk around the house.
5.	Park the car – not too close to where you are going – and walk to your destination
6.	Walk to short distance destination – i/o of using your car for every where you go.
7.	Work in your garden – if you have one
Click here to read How did the Pedometer Helped Us

Pedometers types:

There are many types and levels of pedometers and the price can go up from us$ 10 – 300.

The differences are:

No. of features
Accuracy – the deviation in the accuracy can be up to 45% in the more simple ones – very significant.

What is Important in buying a Pedometer

High Accuracy
Compact and easy to carry
Match the sophistication level to the user so that it's operating will not discourage the user
Pocket pedometer – i.e. with the technology that enables the pedometer sense the motions of the carrier when it is put in the pocket as well. This is an important feature, as some of the pedometer, that do not have this technology, must be vertical to the ground and they can lose accuracy because of the way they are carried. As well this technology facilitates the carrying of the pedometer.

Click here for the results of the price comparison I did for ordering Pedometer.

The recommended pedometer is the best combination between usable features, easy operation, compact, you can carry it in your pocket or belt or even in the bag or purse & reasonable price.

The product's features:

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Measures steps, aerobic steps and minutes, calories and distance
A pocket pedometer – i.e. with the technology that enables the pedometer sense the motions of the carrier when it is put in the pocket as well.
Separately displays aerobic steps and minutes walked more than 10 minutes continuously
7 day history lets you review a full week of exercise
It resets every midnight and ready to collect data for the day after.
Features include large display, clock, detachable belt holder and security strap
Error rate - less than 1%.
Usb connector that enables you down load your data to your computer and participate in Omron's Health Management software

This PC software provides a blood pressure and pulse graph that lets you see how your values are trending over time.

A morning/evening comparison graph tracks your morning and evening systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate.

You can also view your most common values and identify variations by time frame with the frequency distribution graph.

The software is simple to use, and it supports multiple users. With just one click, you can download data via the HJ-720ITC's USB connection and see graphically displayed measurements on your computer screen in seconds.