Step Counter Pedometer

Welcome to Step Counter Pedometer!

A step counter pedometer is a device that counts every step that a person takes by detecting the movement of a person's body. The distance of each person's stride is different, and calibration is required in order to measure the distance in kilometers or miles. Pedometers are becoming more popular as a fitness tool every day. They can record how many steps the wearer has walked that day, and then calculate the total distance. This knowledge is all you need to gradually begin living a healthier lifestyle.

Step counter pedometers are a great method for encouragement to compete with yourself by trying to add to your previous day/week walking distance. A great goal is to try for 10,000 steps per day, or about 5 miles, for an excellent base to your cardio fitness routine. For proper weight loss always eat a healthy diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables, plenty of grains and fibers, and lean meats. Five smaller meals per day can help keep your metobolism at its highest throughout the day, so you won't crash or eat poorly because you're starved. When you're hungry the last thing you'll want to do is think about exercising.

Keeping track of your walking with a step counter pedometer is just the first step.

When you're ready, weightlifting, cycling, aerobic classes, yoga, pilates, and other routines should also be added to keep your body flexible and energized. When you continue the same routine your body will hit a plateau, which will grind your progress to a halt, and is often times very discouraging. Break through these by changing your routine and doing something you've never tried before. This will help keep you on track for your fitness and weight loss goals as well as keep you interested in exercising. Always remember to drink plenty of water! Becoming more healthy is the best lifestyle choice you'll ever make.

Latest deals on Step Counter Pedometers:

	Omron HJ-113 Walking Style Step Counter Pedometer Unique dual accelerometer sensors let you carry your step pedometer in your pocket or bag. 7-day history gives you a review of your full week of exercise, then resets at midnight automatically so it's ready to go in the morning. $21.75 (was $34.99, currently 38% off)
	Omron Hip Pedometer A good basic hip counter pedometer by Omron. 7 day memory, automatic reset at midnight. Clips on your hip. $14.99 (was $23.99, currently 38% off)
	Sportline 304 ShrinQ 2.0 Pocket Pedometer (Blue) Designed to store in your pocket or on a lanyard. The ShrinQ step counter pedometer will track your steps, distance-traveled and calories-burned with extreme accuracy. $9.88 (was $34.99, currently 72% off)
	Oregon Scientific PE828 Pedometer with Calorie Counter Memory stores 7 days of data including steps, distance and calorie data. Digital 12 or 24-hour clock with weekday and alarm, backlight for easy viewing. Great price! $12.95 (was $29.95, currently 57% off)
	Pretime™ Pedometer with Steps / Calories / Distance, Step Counter An easy to use pedometer that comes in green, purple, silver, and white. $8.99 (was $17.12, currently 47% off)
	Gaiam Intermediate Pedometer - Purple Step counter pedometer by Gaiam. $14.99
	Pretime™ Pedometer with Steps / Calories / Distance, Step Meter / Counter A basic unit to get you started without breaking the bank. Comes in black, red, and silver. $4.99 (was $9.50, currently 47% off)

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Always be informed before any purchase. A sample of reviews for step counter pedometers from Amazon.com:

Omron HJ-113 Walking Style Step Counter Pedometer

By Wanda Y. Sager "Wanda Sager" (Georgia) - I have used many pedometers. I started keeping track of my steps three years ago. Mainly because I had gained 29 pounds that I needed to lose. Once I started tracking my daily activity a few months later the pounds started melting away I lost a total of 34 pounds. Not just with the pedometer but also by eating right and getting more excercise. You think you would get 10,000 steps a day easy but not. The other pedometers on the market will record a step whether you are sitting, standing etc. since the Omron pedometer does not start recording steps until you have been walking for 1 minute it is accurate. It is the most accurate on the market and the only brand that I will own now and in the future. I lost mine about a year ago and settled for another brand. The other brand did not calculate the mileage correctly but I settled for it until I could get another Omron. Now that I have this one I hope to not lose it ever again and would highly recommend this pedometer to anyone that is serious about tracking their acitivity.

By D. Stark "walker" (Wichita, KS) - I bought this pedometer to replace one that had just worn out from age. It measures the miles just fine but I really wish it had some sort of reset capability. I use this for regular walks for excercise and I don't always want to start my walk from home. The trouble is that I can't take it to my starting point without registering some unintended steps, then I can't reset to begin the walk. The only recourse is to subtract what has accumulated to the start point. Of course, it does automatically reset at midnight but that isn't much help. Having said all this, the pedometer is a very good instrument. The reset is my only concern.

By Zorbas (Florida, USA) - This product is awesome. It is very accurate and it has been very helpful in showing me how little I walk! It definitely has motivated me to walk more. I like the features like 7 days of memory and how it resets every night at midnight automatically.

By L. Burger - I've been a real advocate of the Omron pedometer for years. Absolutely loved my old HJ-112... Unfortunately I got careless and accidently left it clipped to my pants and ran them through the washing machine... Horrifying;). (Dried it out and it still worked (!!), but the display was really compromised.) So I decided to get a new pedometer. I was intrigued by this new model and decided to give it a try. I really like it. It has some improvements over the HJ-112 and it's less expensive to boot! Briefly here are the differences: 1) It's smaller in circumference, but slightly thicker. 2) It's seems a little more "cheaply made" as compared to the HJ-112, but frankly I think that's just the paint job. The HJ-112 also has a plastic body, but it's painted platinum so it only seems fancier. 3) There's one less button the memory button is "memo". I think the reset function may have been removed... but I don't mind as I almost never used it on my old pedometer. 4) The real improvement is that while the HJ-112 stored your KCal burned, total steps, aerobic steps, and total miles for 7 days it did not save your aerobic minutes. They were only visible for the current day. The HJ-113 stores aerobic minutes as well as all the others for 7 days. This was a great improvement for me. I like to log my aerobic distance as well as time. It helps me to calculate walking speed, a component of my program I'm trying to improve. In the past if I didn't get my stats logged on that day, my time info was lost. So for me this was a marvelous improvement. 5) They've also included a fat gram burned on the KCal display. Frankly it's just the KCal divided by 9 (there's 9 KCal/gram of fat)... I doesn't add anything for me, but it might help motivate someone else. So overall I think this model is fantastic; it offers all the benefits of the HJ-112 (I find it's every bit as accurate, etc) and it has a few added benefits of its own. Namely: it's slightly smaller, it stores your aerobic times as well as distance for 7 days, it calculates fat grams burned, and it's cheaper! FYI: mine came with battery, so that's not how they're trying to save $. I got mine via Amazon/J&R and even with the nominal amount of shipping ($2) it was still cheaper than the HJ-112. I heartily recommend it, it's a great motivational tool. Also contrary to info in other reviews this is not a European model; all the distances are in miles, weight input is in lbs, stride is in inches, ect.

By Carm B. "Mrs. B" (Canton, MI) - I love this pedometer! I have lost 4 already and always purchase another one of these pedometers. They are easy to program and give you all the information you need to make the most of your steps during the day!

By L. A. Kearley "curleyqbooks" (Chicagoland suburb) - Product came with everything it needed however it arrived without manufacturer packaging. This is actually a great idea from a waste standpoint. No heavy box or clam shell to add to the landfill. However, when ordering for a gift it is nicer to have the manufacturer box to wrap. It came in bubble wrap bag with the item, it's components and instructions inside the bubble wrap bag.

By wannawalk (Mpls, Minnesota) - This pedometer didn't come with a battery which has been a big pain in the butt! It is the third one I have ordered from this company and they have always come with batteries. This has delayed my use of it...i.e. I have not set it up yet and I got it a month ago...still don't have the battery. Would be so much better if the battery came with it so consumer could start using it right away. I would pay extra for the convenience!

By M. Lovell "ML" (Pacifica, CA USA) - Be careful with this company. While some of their products are good, they take no responsibility for shipping out defective product. I bought this Omron pedometer which never functioned. I thought it might be the battery and went out and bought a new one. It still didn't work. I called their customer service number (which was not easy to find) and left a message (no real human was available). No one ever bothered to call back. I contacted Amazon, but the 30 days had lapsed and they wash their hands of the matter as well. They did however, provide me with another customer service number where I was able to speak with "Jennifer". She asked me a couple of questions and explained that they send their product out with "trial batteries", which have very little charge, so they know that you are going to have to go buy a new battery pretty much right away. Jennifer offered to set up a repair order for me so I would have the priviledge of mailing the defective pedometer to Texas where they "might" be able to repair it. Of course there were no guarantees and there was a slight fee for the repair and no, they do not send you a shipping label or take any responsibility for shipping....I didn't bother wasting more time and money. They sure generated a lot of ill will for a product which cost less than $20 ....

By Samurai Surfer (San Francisco, CA USA) - My review is based on the HJ-112 step counter pedometer which I have used religiously to track my step count daily for more than two years. Based on the description of the HJ-113, the functions are identical to the HJ-112; the differences are insubstantial and are only in color and button shape. I purchased the Omron pedometer to ensure that I based my exercise program and diet on facts, where the step count acts as a surrogate for total overall activity. Using a step count as a measurement of activity simplifies your exercise program. It reduces the activity component of your health plan to a single number so you don't have to worry about whether you're running, walking or dancing: moving (taking steps) is the key. The Omron is highly accurate and highly reliable. It will not add to your step count when you take 10 steps or fewer at a time, but this is a small inconvenience when compared to the problems that other pedometers have of adding steps when you aren't taking steps at all. I generally leave the pedometer in my pocket without the clip and check periodically to see where I am in my step count. Only once in more than two years has it failed to count accurately: it undercounted when I ran much faster than I usually do on a treadmill (in the rest of my hundreds of other treadmill runs and walks it has been incredibly accurate). The accurate count prevents me from being in denial about the amount of activity I have undertaken during the day. It also encourages me to find opportunities to be ambulatory. Instead of parking as close as possible to a store I park farther away to increase my step count. Indeed, the pedometer is effective at motivating me to walk wherever possible and to leave the car at home. The pedometer has also been useful in motivating me to dance regularly; with the exception of the Argentine tango and very slow waltzes, where steps are undercounted, the pedometer does a remarkable job of keeping track of your step count when you dance. You still have to watch what you eat -- intake is still important -- but the pedometer will at least let you know where you are on the output part of the equation. I am admittedly compulsive about keeping track of my step count but making sure that I have at least 10,000 steps logged each day has been a good way of helping me stay in good health via consistent and regular daily activity. The Omron pedometer has been an invaluable tool for an overall health program. A final recommendation: make sure to buy a pedometer with a 7-day memory (like the HJ-112 or the HJ-113) so that you don't feel that you have to check the step count each night just before you go to bed and before the pedometer resets to zero at midnight. If you track and record your step count and your morning weight over a long period of time, you will find that eventually there will be high correlation between the two.

By J. F. HOWELL - The Omron HJ-113 does what it is supposed to do: count your steps, calculates calories burned, etc., but it has a glaring bug: there is no reset button to clear the "steps" display. (One can reset it but one must use the "system reset" whichs clears out everything requiring a complete setup again.) Or you can just wait until midnight when it automatically resets to zero. I start my walk at the front of my house, in the street. By the time I get out there the HJ-113 has registered about 10 to 15 steps so one must remember to subtract this number from the end-of-walk number. Assuming of course you remember to look at the number when you finish and don't add more steps as you walk inside the house. And assuming you can remember the number at the end of a bad walk. In the grand scheme of things this is a minor item but it made me mad that such a small thing would be left out or forgotten. I sometimes walk two times during a day and not being able to clear out the prior walk's data is a bummer.

By D. Graham (Pittsburgh, PA) - The Omron HJ-113 is just perfect for my walking needs. It is easy to set up and offers me a history of the past 7 days, with options for steps, miles, calories etc. My favorite feature is the double clip with strap. I've lost 2 previous pedometers, but won't loose this one. Recommend with confidence.

By A. McLaughlin (Midlothian, VA United States) - This is my first pedometer and it's incredibly easy to use. Set-up is also pretty simple - just a quick measure of 10 strides across the floor. I use it mostly for walking, but when I jog during my walks, it stays pretty accurate. Obviously, the jog stride is longer than the walking stride, but the measured distance is still within 5%, I'd say. As for the walking measurement, I tested it on a quarter mile track and it proved very accurate. I just clip it on my shorts or sweatpants and go. So light you forget it's there. So get one and get moving!

By M. Stewart - I have gone through about a half-dozen pedometers in the last 3 years. One fell off in the toilet, 2 just fell off at work without my realizing it. Two just stopped functioning. The Omron has a stronger spring than others I've had. That with the "leash" clip pretty assures against its loss. I have knocked the clip off a few times when carrying something heavy, but the leash kept it attached. I also appreciate the automatic daily reset feature. My daily goal is to walk between 4-5 miles in the normal course of the workday. The unit also keeps track of an entire week's accumulation in miles, steps, calories burned. It's the best one I've used to date.

By Mark E. Sundermann "Sunder" (Holt, MI USA) - I've spent plenty of money on pedometers that never seemed to work for me. The clips would break, the number of steps were never accurate, they'd fall off... never to be seen again. Until I found this one. This current model has a really COOL color scheme, but the underlying product is PHENOMINAL. For those reviews that say they "lost" their pedometer due to a falty clip, the only thing I can say there is they must not have engaged the safety strap that I clip to my belt loop to avoid such a situation. Of course, as a male, I wear pants with a belt loop, and so this has never been a problem. This current product is an upgrade from my previous one, which lasted nearly 4 years before the unit itself stopped working properly. An upgrade on this version from the previous one is the "reset" button is no longer on the front and accidental resets (a small problem previously) no longer occur. Options I love: 7 day memory, auto reset at midnight, EXTREMELY accurate counting of steps. My only "negative" comment about the product is the inaccurate counts I get when I wear the thing on long runs. Depending on where I put it, it can be off a bit, and I'm not annoyed enough by that to give it a negative star rating. That's what I get for taking the thing to the edge of it's capabilities. If you want the most accurate step counter on the market, you can't beat this product at the price it's offered. You could spend a lot more for a product as accurate, but why?

Omron Hip Pedometer

By D. Fiol (CA) - I purchased this model over a year ago and the first one stopped functioning after two or three months. I received a replacement from Omron (they wanted to collect a "shipping and handling" charge that was almost the the same as the price of a new one, but I refused to pay it). The replacement worked for a few months, and then it stopped working too. The screen worked, the low battery indicator was not activated, but it just stopped counting steps. I like the concept of a pedometer and this model is simple and easy to use, with a clear display and easy scrolling of step counts for the past seven days, but if you want a product that will last, I suggest you avoid this model and perhaps avoid Omron entirely, as I expect most of their models use the same basic design.

By Kate Williams (Lisbon, IA) - Very pleased with accuracy. I had paid much more for a bigger "name brand" that was no where close. It added steps for every little jiggle and rattle even sitting in a moving vehicle. The Omron pedometer motivates me to move to keep my step count consistently high!

By Roberta Janes "Butterfly Lady" (Silicon Valley, CA USA) - This is a great pedometer if you just want to keep track of the steps you take each day. You don't have to worry about calories or anything else.

By Sabina Duke "Sabina" (Boulder City, NV) - This is a great gadget. Keeps track of daily steps, saves the info and totals the week. Also has a digital clock. I love it.

Sportline 304 ShrinQ 2.0 Pocket Pedometer

By David (California) - It seems to keep counting when you are not moving, like it is counting seconds or something. It is really expensive and is worth zero. I won't buy any more Sportline stuff. I don't understand how they can get away with selling stuff that doesn't work.

By David Natalizia "dave_nat" (Costa Mesa, CA USA) - This pedometer has got a lot going for it: -It's small -Can easily fit in any pocket -Has other functions such as clock and activity timer But that doesn't matter much as it is wildly inaccurate in most situations. I wore it along with a conventional pedometer (that I'd previously validated in parallel with the industry-standard Yamax) and it was only moderately accurate for medium-speed walking, and totally unacceptable for mixed activity. In most situations it tended to seriously over-count. If they come out with a more accurate version of the same thing, it'll be a good device. Not Yet!

By David Bates "just a guy" - Shame on me, I didn't do my research before buying the Sportline 304 ShrinQ 2.0. In fact, I thought Pedometers were all the same. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I, like all but 1 reviewer, found that the accuracy was terrible in the unit. It counted steps while I was sitting still at my desk...who knew walking could be so easy? While the size and ease of programming are nice features, this pedometer does not meet its intended purpose. It gets one star 'cause I can't rate -0-.

By Loves to read (Madison, AL) - I bought this pedometer at Dicks. Later while I was in the area of my favorite athletics store and stopped by just to see what they recommended. I ended up purchasing a Timex. I thought I might as well wear them both to see which one I preferred. I really liked the slim line of the Sportline. What I found was that after walking on the treadmill the Sportline had almost double the steps. I tried again, this time counting my steps. It was way off. It even counts steps while I'm driving in the car, leaning over, or just sitting. It's virually impossible to reset it to 0, put it in your pocket, then take it right back out and have it still read 0. I want something I can wear all day and get an accurate step count. This isn't it. Probably would work OK if you just put it on to run and then took it off. I'm returning it.

By Sage Q. "Sage" (NY) - This pedometer is WAY too sensitive. I've used several others, and I have a general idea of how many steps I'm taking during different activities. I tried this one because most others are too bulky and uncomfortable. However, it records almost twice as many steps as I'm actually taking. It records steps even as you pick it up to put in your pocket. I'm returing it.

By Charles Calderin "Charlie Calderin" (Miami, FL USA) - Sportline 304 ShrinQ 2.0 Pocket Pedometer (Blue) So I bought one of these, read the manual, input my personal information, height, stride, etc. and was really excited that at the end of a normal day it registered 16,125 steps. I've been reading about the 10,000 step a day stuff and thought "piece of cake." Well, I gave it to my girlfriend who had been using another pedometer but was looking for something smaller and less conspicuous. After she read a similar result she thought there must be something wrong as she had been averaging about 8,000 steps a day. Sure enough I paid closer attention and did some tests counting steps and it was off, way off. Resetting it and putting it down on the table 5 steps. Walk to the kitchen 60 steps (I don't live in a big house.) So I called customer service and though they were very nice they basically told me that it is a very sensitive unit and they recommend not keeping it in your pocket while seated and to only use it while actually walking. This kind of defeats the purpose of the design which is intended to be portable and very discrete. They offered to send me a new one if I sent it in but they were sure it would give me the same results. I'm going to try to return it. It is not accurate to my satisfaction.

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