Calibrating your Pedometer
If you want to use your Digital Pocket Pedometer to it’s full potential then you need to calibrate the unit before you start using it. Features like the time, distance and calories burned all rely on setting your pedometer correctly before your first use.
Follow the user manual carefully as there are only a few settings and you need to get them right. It’s so easy to do:
- Measure your stride length – This will make the distance measurements as accurate as possible.
- Set the Time – This is important to keep a track of your steps and automatically reset your counters for the following day.
- Set your Weight – The Calories Burned function uses your weight as well as stride, steps and walking speed, to calculate how many calories you have burned.
The Omron Digital Pocket Pedometer is one of the most accurate Pedometers on the market and combined with it’s Dual-axis accelerator Sensor, it’s not going to give you false steps. The unit has been tested and shows an incredible Precision of Step Counting within +/- 5%.
