Activ8rlives BuddyBand2, 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
BuddyBand2 . 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 lifestyles. Having fun,
creating new challenges and goals, while being more active, also means that we enjoy our new healthy
lives.
The
Activ8rlives BuddyBand2 has a couple of great features, which we use to have fun: it
automatically calculates the distance we walk, the total activity time and the calories we use during the
day.
For the Activ8rlives Buddy Band2 to work these out for us, we need to enter our weight (kg or lbs) and
our stride length (cm or 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 1,000cm (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
Activ8rlives BuddyBand2 (via your
online Activ8rlives ACCOUNT ).
10m