Importance Of Pedometers

Are you not doing as well on your New Year's Resolutions as you'd like? Then how about getting a pedometer?

It's a simple device that just does one simple thing... measure how many steps you take during the day. But this same simple device can also get you to take more steps every day. And that means burning more calories along the way.

These devices have been around for years and have been used time and time again in different exercise type programs. They are usually used to help measure just how much work a person is doing during the day by just walking around. And just walking around can burn a lot more calories than most of us think. Most experts recommend we try and get 10,000 steps per day to help stay fit. But with all the sitting we do at work and home, most of us get much less than that. The average one of us only takes a little over 5,000 steps every day... way below that target number of 10,000. But now it looks like just having a pedometer will actually get you to walk more. Pedometer wearers in recent studies ended up walking 2,000 more steps per day simply by just wearing a pedometer. It seems like when we put one on our belts, we walk more, whether we intend to or not.

And all that extra walking means extra calories burnt day in and day out. And that means extra pounds lost, just by strapping on that little step measuring device... the pedometer. A great way to start those New Year's Resolutions up again.