I got a pedometer at Target Saturday. I have been wanting one for a while, and I found one that was only about $5.00. I went ahead and got it.
I got it out on Sunday, and by the time I took it off for the night I had almost 4000 steps counted on it. Not great, but considering I spent a lot of time sitting in church, not bad either.
Monday, I put it on and by dinner I had about the same amount of steps counted as I did for the whole day Sunday. I was feeling pretty darn good about that. Then, later when we sat down to watch a movie I decided to take it off for a bit and look at it. The darn thing said 1 step. YUCK! I was so upset. I didn't put it back on that night.
Yesterday, when I went to weed whack my back yard, is said about 300 steps. I thought the number looked low, but then remembered that I had been sitting in front of the computer for most of the morning. The low number then made sense. When I was just about done with the part of the yard I was going to do, I looked down at my new gadget to see how many steps I had done. It said 75. WHAT!
All I can figure is that I keep pushing the reset button while I am doing stuff. How frustrating though. That reset button must be really sensitive or I lean on my right hip a lot. Either way it is making it really hard to get an accurate count so that I can challenge myself farther.
I had one, once, and the same thing kept happening. That's why I don't like them. You jog it funny and it adds steps, even when you're just standing there. You lean on it funny and it resets your progress. I say just keep moving and you can't go wrong, no matter how many steps you take. :)
ReplyDeleteI have had the same thing happen before and understand how frustratig that is. You want the steps to encourage you, and it's almost like I don't care for the rest of the day if it resets. Sorry!
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem with my pedometer... I got so frustrated that I tossed it. Now mine was free, so it was probably pretty low-quality. Maybe if I spent money on a better one it would work better. But maybe not... at any rate, I'm still so annoyed with that free one that I've never gotten another one!
ReplyDeleteI never could figure out how a pedometer registers a step. If someone has more of a bounce in their step it might work better, but if you are really graceful and smooth then it probably won't work as well. I guess that's what it is. You are just too graceful!
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