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Pedometer Challenge Thread

Thommothebear said:
Late joiner to this thread as I only installed Pacer on my iPhone yesterday. I logged 11707 steps today walking along the beach, felt much more than hat as quite a lot of it was on shingle following the storms we've had recently.

I do have a question though if anyone has the necessary knowledge, I usually do rowing as my main cardio activity, can anyone tell me what the equivalent step count would be for say an 8km row? HR monitor gives me about 425 cals effort for 8km if that helps. Pacer allows additional cardio work to be entered but seems to want to know the steps equivalent, there is no rowing option.
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Glad to have someone else along to play!

Sadly I don't know the answer though :(


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Thommothebear said:
Late joiner to this thread as I only installed Pacer on my iPhone yesterday. I logged 11707 steps today walking along the beach, felt much more than hat as quite a lot of it was on shingle following the storms we've had recently.

I do have a question though if anyone has the necessary knowledge, I usually do rowing as my main cardio activity, can anyone tell me what the equivalent step count would be for say an 8km row? HR monitor gives me about 425 cals effort for 8km if that helps. Pacer allows additional cardio work to be entered but seems to want to know the steps equivalent, there is no rowing option.
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Gonna be a best guess Thommo really but have a look at your stroke rate for the 8K piece. An average stroke is approx 10m's I would think, so, approx 10 paces. So, if your SR is approx 25 per minute, it's quite easy to get a decent estimate. I would guess your 8K takes between 35-40mins ? Not sure, but multiply SR per min X mins rowed X10. you can do the maths lol !
 
Thommothebear said:
Late joiner to this thread as I only installed Pacer on my iPhone yesterday. I logged 11707 steps today walking along the beach, felt much more than hat as quite a lot of it was on shingle following the storms we've had recently.

I do have a question though if anyone has the necessary knowledge, I usually do rowing as my main cardio activity, can anyone tell me what the equivalent step count would be for say an 8km row? HR monitor gives me about 425 cals effort for 8km if that helps. Pacer allows additional cardio work to be entered but seems to want to know the steps equivalent, there is no rowing option.
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Hi and welcome

I assume that there is a constant ratio of steps per calorie. Calculate this by dividing the figure for total steps per pacer with the corresponding figure for total calories. If you then multiply the total number of calories burned per your rowing machine with this steps per calorie ratio to get total steps equivalent of your rowing sessions.

I hope I managed to explain this clearly.

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Hello Thommo!

9348 today, may have to jog up and down the stairs a few times at bed time t get to 10,000

Cara
 
I managed 12098 steps yesterday thanks to two 40 minutes walks, but only 6182 steps so far today. :(
 
14279 so far today ... probably won't be much more... as I now plan to slump in front of the TV.
Must be doing some good... as my fasting BG is now consistently in the high 4's - used to be 5.2 every time... woohoo!
 
Thommothebear said:
Late joiner to this thread as I only installed Pacer on my iPhone yesterday. I logged 11707 steps today walking along the beach, felt much more than hat as quite a lot of it was on shingle following the storms we've had recently.

I do have a question though if anyone has the necessary knowledge, I usually do rowing as my main cardio activity, can anyone tell me what the equivalent step count would be for say an 8km row? HR monitor gives me about 425 cals effort for 8km if that helps. Pacer allows additional cardio work to be entered but seems to want to know the steps equivalent, there is no rowing option.
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I tend to consider rowing as pretty much equivalent. If anything I'm about 10-15% quicker on the erg than on the feet, so you could consider a 10k row to be 8.5km run for example? I did read somewhere an equivalence and I don't think it was far off that.
 
pavlosn said:
Hi and welcome

I assume that there is a constant ratio of steps per calorie. Calculate this by dividing the figure for total steps per pacer with the corresponding figure for total calories. If you then multiply the total number of calories burned per your rowing machine with this steps per calorie ratio to get total steps equivalent of your rowing sessions.

I hope I managed to explain this clearly.

Pavlos



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Hmm not so sure about that really, part of my walk is over beach shingle which is much harder work than walking say on tarmac or grass even, similarly when I'm rowing I tend to do intervals with the stroke rate varying between 18 spm up to 36 spm, i temt go with the heart rate monitors most of the time, but today it gave me over 1000 cals for the 2 hour walk, and usually gives me around 600 cals for. 40 min row. i suspect that the 600 for the row is more accurate than the 1000 for the walk as the perceived effort was considerably lower for the walk, being roughly 5.8 miles with about 1 mile on shingle/climbing a cliff path.

Tough to guess, so I guess I'll go with my HRM.


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ElyDave said:
I tend to consider rowing as pretty much equivalent. If anything I'm about 10-15% quicker on the erg than on the feet, so you could consider a 10k row to be 8.5km run for example? I did read somewhere an equivalence and I don't think it was far off that.
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Sounds about right, thinking about perceived effort. i don't run though as I have quite bad knee cartilage issues so walk everywhere, my stride walking is going to be a lot shorter so step wise I'd be inclined to regard an 8km interval row as about the same as a 10k step walk at a steady pace.

i'm not sure I actually regard steps as any real indicator of total work rate, however I may just be overthinking the whole thing as usual. The important thing is just to keep moving!


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Thommothebear said:
Hmm not so sure about that really, part of my walk is over beach shingle which is much harder work than walking say on tarmac or grass even, similarly when I'm rowing I tend to do intervals with the stroke rate varying between 18 spm up to 36 spm, i temt go with the heart rate monitors most of the time, but today it gave me over 1000 cals for the 2 hour walk, and usually gives me around 600 cals for. 40 min row. i suspect that the 600 for the row is more accurate than the 1000 for the walk as the perceived effort was considerably lower for the walk, being roughly 5.8 miles with about 1 mile on shingle/climbing a cliff path.

Tough to guess, so I guess I'll go with my HRM.


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Of course you're not taking efficiency int account either if you go from a calorie count perspective. Rowing is horibly inefficient from a biomechanical turning energy expended into measureable work perspective. I suspect walking is much more efficient, as is cycling. Just think of all that useless energy spent sliding back adn forth, adn acccelerating then decellerating the boat (whether virtual or real)
 
I would stick with SR Thommo. 1 stroke is approx 10m or 10paces. You can get a pretty good estimation if you know minutes taken to row 8K and stroke rate per minute.


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mo1905 said:
I would stick with SR Thommo. 1 stroke is approx 10m or 10paces. You can get a pretty good estimation if you know minutes taken to row 8K and stroke rate per minute.


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That's a big approximation Mo.

For a steady distance row I could be at 11m/stroke, for a 500m sprint I could be at 7m/stroke. I think I red the equivalence soemwhere in one of the C2 training manuals, one of the sections on cross training.
 
ElyDave said:
That's a big approximation Mo.

For a steady distance row I could be at 11m/stroke, for a 500m sprint I could be at 7m/stroke. I think I red the equivalence soemwhere in one of the C2 training manuals, one of the sections on cross training.
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Agree, it's only approx but it can give a rough idea regarding the pedometer thread. To liken rowing and walking is only a bit of fun but keeps Thommo in the game ;-)
 
A not too shabby 16121 today :)... phew! .... that's it.... I'm not walking another step tonight...
 
Well done Weens. How do you manage that? Are you a postman?

My score was 7000 today which is about my average on a working day. The only way I can get is higher is to go on a 'pointless walk' as my children describe it

Cara
 
Only 5868 yesterday and today will be even less, yesterday I was on a train for hours and today I'm stuck in the house waiting for the Virgin engineer to come and install new equipment


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Thommothebear said:
Late joiner to this thread as I only installed Pacer on my iPhone yesterday. I logged 11707 steps today walking along the beach, felt much more than hat as quite a lot of it was on shingle following the storms we've had recently.

I do have a question though if anyone has the necessary knowledge, I usually do rowing as my main cardio activity, can anyone tell me what the equivalent step count would be for say an 8km row? HR monitor gives me about 425 cals effort for 8km if that helps. Pacer allows additional cardio work to be entered but seems to want to know the steps equivalent, there is no rowing option.
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heya,

this is a guess but, my nike+ app i use for running says i use about that many calories when i do a 5k run so if my 5k run roughly 5000 steps you could perhaps assume 5000 is equivalent to 8k row but as i say thats pure guess work
 
Just under 6000 yesterday, but a more respectable 11661 so far today. I had a day off and a doctors appointment so had a decent walk to a record store (yes, I still buy vinyl) this morning and walked to the surgery this afternoon.
 
5798 so far today.

My new vivofit arrived today so I'm interested to see how the step count in it and my normal pedometer match up


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