Best Pedometers in the UK

The Walking Style IV model offers athletes and sports enthusiasts the features that are truly necessary for tracking their activities. With its enhanced 3D sensor technology for counting your daily steps, this one of the best pedometers is capable of keeping a record of not only mere quantity but also the quality of the steps you take. Owing to this technology, this model can discern between regular walking and brisk aerobic steps, which are tracked separately when the device detects the 60 steps/minute walking rate for more than ten minutes at a time. The advanced steps statistics in its turn allows for a more precise calculation of the calories burnt with a higher burn rate accounting for the aerobic steps registered. However, the Style IV offers even more flexibility with its action mode, which you can use for controlling your progress and setting personal goals. This mode grants access to your statistics on distance covered and calories burned for a particular activity (steps, aerobic steps) on a particular day and selected time period. Thus, you can easily plan your walking activity, which intensity can range from strolling to quick walking, then select the needed type just before going in for it use the data for reference during your future workouts.

What can be more motivating and uplifting for a person going in for sports than breaking a record? While aspiring for more is very important in sports your small victories and goals already achieved are what keeps you on track. Being aware of this the manufacturer of the Omron Walking Style IV equipped the device with 10.000 steps achievement indicator, which is aimed at rewarding your efforts and inspiring to new achievements.

With their FB301M model, Fitbit introduced a modern and compact digital pedometer that meets the requirements of both beginners and professionals. Owing to the modern accelerometer use, this compact digital trainer can accurately capture your all-day activity parameters, which is impossible to do with old-school models. However, the device is capable of doing more than just tracking your steps, distance covered and calories burned. The fact of the matter is that the Zip is a Bluetooth-enabled model that automatically syncronises the physical activity data acquired with your Fitbit personal account using a PC, a tablet PC or selected smartphones. Thus, you can use the built-in Bluetooth 4.0 transmitter on the device to set your personal goals both online and via the Fitbit App to pursue your active lifestyle and stay motivated on the way to your fitness accomplishments. The Zip makes performing this task a fun with available activity parameters graphs, charts, badges and even friendly competitions. Using the bundled software, you can share your results with friends and family as well as to keep your finger on the pulse of their fitness progress.

As we mentioned, the Zip model comes with a free mobile app that enables tracking of your current progress and planning your activity. The app gives you an access to a free online dashboard and provides snapshots of your daily progress as well as aggregated results for a determined period. The main advantage of this dashboard is that it allows a customization in displaying your data. In other words, the bundled software serves to make the array of the physical activity data acquired with the Zip hardware much easier to understand, check against, store and access at any time.

The 3DTriSport Walking pedometer features a built-in stopwatch mode that allows you to record your training sessions while it counts laps, passed distance, and burnt calories. For greater accuracy, the pedometer offers an adjustable sensitivity and automatic calibration. Thus, the device "knows" the difference between walking, jogging, and running, and properly records your activity stats. In addition, the 3DTriSport Walking pedometer stores data on your activity for up to 30 days. So, you can always track your progress. On buying this device you’ll get a helping hand that will track your activity for 6-12 months before it's time to replace batteries.

Regardless small dimensions of the pedometer it has a rather large and easy-to-read display. The device has 3 control buttons where the "Mode" button is the largest one. Thus, you can skip through stats on your daily activity. To prolong a battery life, the manufacturer has designed the pedometer with Automatic Screen Dimming feature. And Locking Mechanism in the 3DTriSport Walking pedometer prevents accidental button pressing if you put it in your pocket.

This model by Competitive Sport Xtreme is designed very compact and comes in a sleek small case. Owing to this you can conveniently put it anywhere, be it a pocket of your clothes, an inner space or pockets of a bag or a backpack. As the Simple Walking comes with a lanyard, you can also wear it hung around your neck or attached to outdoor clothes.

What is also appealing about the externals of this step counter is its large LCD screen. The decision to use the screen that occupies nearly all the space on the front panel comes naturally, as the device does not need any controls for the operation. With such a high-contrast screen, the values displayed are well discernible and rather easy to read. As for the step counter itself, it offers up to 99,999 steps count with a manual reset to zero. This is quite a large number considering that most of the competing models offer the 10,000 as a maximum count.

Owing to its minimalistic, yet essential set of features and effective use of the sleep mode, the CSX Simple Walking 3D can run on a single (included) battery for about a year, which is simply unachievable for more feature-packed competitors. Thus, after buying the device you have a peace of mind as for the need for recharging it for several months ahead.

Along with counting your steps, the functionality of the Best Walking 3D allows you to record and track your physical activity against various parameters. The Nakosite device shows the distance covered (in both kilometers and miles) as well as indicates the calories burned (KCal). Using these indicators, you can monitor your current performance and set various but realistic daily fitness goals. Especially that the device has the 10-step progress bar and milestone reminders, which are together with the active status showing make tracking your activity during the day a fun. Seeing the intermediate results for your workouts is both stimulating and alerting when you put efforts in achieving some stretch goals. Well, that what pedometers are for, in the first place, aren’t they?

As we all know the best results when doing physical exercises are not achieved immediately but rather over some period. In other words, to get some significant positive results from running or walking you need to follow your routine for quite a while. Being well aware of that Nakosite decided to equip their Best Walking 3D step and calories counter with 30-day memory. This feature allows you to work with a large 30-day long array of statistic data on your physical activity, compare your daily results, see the improvements and adjust your plan. As for keeping track of your daily activity, the model offers a convenient timer reset that automatically sets all your daily counters at midnight.