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Small, easy to use, full featured, inexpensive, … and completely inaccurate.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Pros: The Walking Advantage 347 is small, easy to use, full featured, and inexpensive. So, overall, you’d think, “Gee, this sounds like a great pedometer!” That would be true, except…
Cons: It’s totally and randomly inaccurate! It happens that I walk a fair amount on relatively flat, paved surfaces that have well-marked and measured distances. I don’t have the pedometer set to measure distances; I just have it count steps because I thought that would be easier and more accurate. When I first bought it, I counted out 200 paces in my head and the pedometer told me 190 steps. Fine, I thought, it’s low by a little. No problem.
Then, one day last week, I walked a 5.2-mile path and it told me I had walked 8,500 steps (3.2 feet per step). Over the weekend, I walked a measured mile and it told me I had walked 1,200 steps (4.4 feet per step!). Then, today, I walked exactly 4 miles and it told me I had walked 14,700 steps (1.44 feet per step!). All of these walks are on similar days with similar conditions and the same shoes and all that. Does my pace really vary from 1.4 to 4.4 feet per step on the same 5’4″ woman? I don’t think so. It’s just randomly over- or under-counting steps. Grr…
Conclusion: A pedometer’s primary use is to count steps accurately, so those other benefits are kind of irrelevant if the pace counting is wrong. Buy a different pedometer even if you just use it for walking. That’s what I logged onto Amazon to do just now.