{"id":1604,"date":"2007-11-26T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T00:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/11\/26\/in-praise-of-pedometers\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T19:48:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T00:48:54","slug":"in-praise-of-pedometers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/11\/26\/in-praise-of-pedometers\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of pedometers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story got some press last week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/566445\">People who walk with a pedometer go farther and get healthier,<\/a> according to a Stanford researcher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bravata and colleagues explain that although there has been a surge in popularity for pedometers as a tool to motivate and monitor physical activity, there is a lack of detailed evidence of their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>They looked at 26 studies with a total of 2767 participants (eight randomized controlled trials and 18 observation studies); 85% of participants were women, and the mean age was 49 years. The mean duration of pedometer use in the studies was 18 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>They found that, on average, pedometer users significantly increased their physical activity by 2183 steps a day over baseline (p&lt;0.0001), or by 26.9%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bought a pedometer once but ended up exchanging it for something more useful because I thought its main purpose was measuring distance &#8212;\u00a0 I knew from hiking that I never spent more than five minutes at the same pace, so telling a pedometer your pace is 2.5 feet or whatever results in\u00a0 little more than a wild guess, distancewise.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t occur to me that the more fundamental business of counting steps could prove beneficial.\u00a0 A wristwatch with a stopwatch function does pretty much the same thing, seems to me, but deprives you of the opportunity to buy an activity-specific toy.<\/p>\n<p>More on buying a pedometer <a href=\"http:\/\/walking.about.com\/cs\/measure\/bb\/bybpedometer.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story got some press last week: People who walk with a pedometer go farther and get healthier, according to a Stanford researcher: Bravata and colleagues explain that although there has been a surge in popularity for pedometers as a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/11\/26\/in-praise-of-pedometers\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[40],"tags":[505,123,501,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}