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]]> By: Bluebell http://stepometer.co.uk/archives/17/comment-page-1#comment-2 Bluebell Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:42:45 +0000 http://stepometer.co.uk/?p=17#comment-2 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. 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.

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