Well, to some degree we are. Meg likes to say “We walking! We walking!” whenever we go on a walk, so it seemed appropriate…
After over a month of using our pedometers, here’s what the data’s looking like. Overall, you can see a few breaks in the chart where someone didn’t use a pedometer. The blue line is me; the red one is Brooke. As of today, the Average for each of us is 6062 steps/day for Brooke and 5987 steps/day for me. To be honest, I’m somewhat astounded with how close together those numbers are. I’ve shown the averages below along with Standard Error bars.
Now, we’re supposed to be walking 10,000 steps per day. We only actually did that once each, and got close on a few occasions. As a reminder, 2000 steps is approximately 1 mile for the average person, so that means we’re both walking around 3 miles per day, give or take. Not too bad, but could be better.
I should note that I generated these with Google Docs and, for some reason, it won’t let me annotate the Legend on the graphs to associate a name with a color. Oh well. Perhaps I’ll e-mail Google and complain about their free service… 😛
Where did you get your pedometers? My phone is ‘supposed’ to work as one – but it doesn’t seem to ‘actually’ work. I’m always curious, especially at work, how much a walk each day. 🙂
Well, these are the ones we got:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IHWKVY/ref=oh_o02_s00_i01_details
…but we paid half that, so I don’t know what’s going on with that listing. Perhaps they were on sale?!
You can get phone apps that serve as pedometers, but we figured that we don’t carry our phones on us all the time, and there’s more likelihood they’ll fail us more often than serve us in that capacity.
The good thing about these is that they record 7 days worth of walking, so you don’t have to update the Google Doc daily or anything. The bad thing about these is that their electronics only allow them to work in an “upright” position (i.e. not “flat”). You can pay more to get one that has “3-axes” rather than “2-axes” (which we have), but we didn’t think it’d be worth it.