Activ8rlives Buddy step counter, User Manual

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Calculating your stride length
Your Activ8rlives account has some great things you can do with your data from the
Activ8rlives Buddy step counter . This makes it fun to use - especially if you are part of a group
or team. We all tend to do the things we like doing. So having fun is part of the motivation for
changing our life styles. Having fun, creating new challenges and goals, while being more
active, also means that we enjoy our new healthy lives.
The Buddy has a couple of great features, which we use to have fun: it automatically calculates
the distance we walk and the calories we use during the day.
For the Buddy to work these out for us, we need to enter our weight (in Kg or lbs) and our
stride length (in cm or in inches).
If you have never calculated your stride length before, here is how we do it:
Find a space in which you can measure 10m.
This could be anywhere—indoors or
outdoors—any place that you can walk
without having to stop.
Make sure that you mark the beginning and
end of the distance.
Then just walk along this distance. Try to use a
normal stride and speed. Count the number of
steps you take.
Now the mathematics. Divide 1,000 cm (10m
expressed as cm) by the number of steps you
made.
For example, if you took 16 steps, your stride
length is 1,000 ÷ 16 = 62.5cm. (Most of us use
a calculator to do this).
This is the value you enter into the
Buddy (via your on-line Activ8rlives
ACCOUNT ).
10m