Jumping on the bandwagon.

freakymistkd

Really good unsure of what to think right now. For the last couple of weeks I thought I'd jump to the bandwagon and try and track my steps. I looked at getting a fitbit but couldn't justify spending a couple of hundred dollars on one. I upgraded my phone recently and it came with an app, that tracks steps, called lifelog. Awesome I thought, but the only thing is I have been spending the last 12 months trying to distance myself from my phone and have gotten into a great habit of not having it attached to me 24/7. I have noticed the app doesn't track all of my steps for example if at the end of the day I wasn't happy with how many I'd taken then I would walk on the spot to make it up (as I've read alot of people do) but for some reason the app doesn't register that movement. This week I bargained with myself and allowed myself to buy a pedometer, only a $20 one but I had read somewhere that this particular brand/model was pretty good. So today was the first time I used the pedometer and I tried to make sure I had my phone in my pocket almost all day. I've tested the app before by walking 100 steps and then checking it's count and it's pretty spot on but like I said earlier it doesn't seem to register small steps or walking on the spot. This morning I tested the pedometer in the same fashion, I walked 100 steps and the count was only off by one or two, then I walked on the spot for 100 steps and it was pretty close also. However I think it might be too sensitive and was maybe counting extra steps for times throughout the day for example I was kneeling on the bed while my daughter was jumping on it and I could hear the pedometer clicking over.

Anyway sorry for the long post but today my phone registered 6061 steps while the pedometer registered 13044. That's a huge discrepancy and I was wondering what other peoples experiences with this king of thing are?

freakymistkd

Hi @Villae81 I just checked that and it's only set to automatic. That could explain the big difference in steps. Thanks