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Calculating Your Stride Length
Your
Activ8rlives
account has some great things you can do with your
data from the
Activ8rlives
PUFFClicker
. 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
Asthma
+
me
App
or the
Activ8rlives
4
Wellness App
has a
couple of great features, which we use to have fun: it automatically
counts the distance we walk, the total activity time and estimates the
calories we use during the day.
For the
Activ8rlives
PUFFClicker
to work these out for us, we need to
enter our weight (kg, lbs or stones/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 your
Asthma
+
me
App
or the
Activ8rlives
4
Wellness App
accounts for use with counting
steps with the
Activ8rlives
PUFFClicker
.
10m
Enabling Step Counting on your PUFFClicker
If you would like to enable
Step Counting
on your
Activ8rlives
PUFFClicker
, navigate to the
Menu
, select
Devices
and scroll to the
bottom to
Add
a
PUFFClicker
. Toggle on the
Enable step counting
and
click
Next
.
