The article that I choose was “Pedometers: Stepping up your health” by Mayo Clinic Staff, this article can be found on www.mayoclinic.com, is the baseline for someone who just started off and wanting to put more steps in their life. The article explains the basic of what the pedometer is used for like tracking your progress and being able to reach your goals. Also, letting you know that they’re many different types and what they track, the cost of the device, and how to wear the device like it has to be in line with the center of your knee to get the best accuracy of your steps. Using the pedometer can become a significant part of your health and wardrobe. By wearing it, it can help you increase your level of activities by:
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4.) Last it also motivates you to get up and walk. It knows when you have been idle for too long.
This helps you challenge yourself. Making you more aware and also making you want to see how many more steps can you increase by if you take the stairwells instead of the elevator, or helping you to make goals to pass your previous number of steps.
By helping you to increase your activity level, it allows you to make personal goals and Mayo Clinic has certain steps to help with setting and attaining your goals with using the pedometer like:
1. Establish your baseline-add up the number of steps divide by the number of days you have been tracking. Once you have done that set up your goals.
2. Short and Long term goals- having small goals will keep you motivated and walking helping you to reach your long term goal. A long term goal might be to accomplished to reach what the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to walk 10,000 steps each day. Now that’s a goal which can be accomplished. I have personally reached this goal many times and all I can say is that it’s nothing more satisfying then reaching a goal you once thought was