by Diana on June 29, 2011
Your Aussie Fit Sport pedometers – AFstep, AFSDTC, Nano-sm, ET-dsm, Slimline –are designed to be worn on the waistband – in a line straight up from the middle of your knee, which is half way between your centre and your side. It is also essential that the pedometer is in the vertical position – not leaning forward [...]
by Diana on June 28, 2011
Are pedometers accurate? Accurate pedometers are those with step-count errors less than 10%, high or low. That is, your pedometer should not count more than 110 steps, or fewer than 90 steps, if you walk 100 steps. Research shows that pedometers tend to count steps more accurately at speeds greater than 4.5 kms per hour [...]
by Diana on June 24, 2011
A pedometer is a small device you wear on your waist that counts the number of steps you take. How do pedometers work? Aussie Fit Sport pedometers are pendulum or spring levered (AFstep, AFSDTC, Nano-sm, ET-dsm, Slimline). Pendulum/spring-levered pedometers use a spring-suspended horizontal lever arm that moves up and down in response to the movement [...]
by Diana on June 21, 2011
It’s already shaping up to be a cold winter. Snow is falling again on the Aussie ski fields. And that’s great for the skiers! But for the rest of us it’s getting harder to get out from under the doona! The mornings are cold and dark and it’s much more appealing to snuggle back into your warm [...]
by Diana on June 14, 2011
A customer rang the other day to ask if our Strapless Heart Rate Monitors were accurate. It was very important to him that they were accurate for two main reasons. One was because he had just bought one! And the other was that his Cardiologist had advised him to get a heart rate monitor so [...]