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2. Walking as Little as One Hour Can Help You Live Longer ... - AOL

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   An accelerometer is basically a fancy pedometer that tracks most kinds of movement, not just number of steps. Researchers calculated the amount of physical activity for each participant based on ...

3. Pedometer - Wikipedia

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   Distance traveled (by walking or any other means) can be measured directly by a GPS receiver. Used originally by sports and physical fitness enthusiasts, pedometers are now becoming popular as an everyday exercise counter and motivator.

4. Fitness tracker - Wikipedia

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   Fitness trackers are a more sophisticated version of the pedometer; in addition to counting steps, they contain additional sensors such as accelerometers and altimeters to collect or estimate measures including the speed and distance travelled, heart rate, calorie expenditure, or the duration and quality of sleep.

5. What your walking speed can tell you about your health - AOL

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   Walking is an easy way to incorporate more movement into your life — and increasing your pace is one way to ramp up the intensity of your exercise, which is important for improving ...

6. Accelerometer - Wikipedia

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   An accelerometer measures proper acceleration, which is the acceleration it experiences relative to freefall and is the acceleration felt by people and objects. [2] Put another way, at any point in spacetime the equivalence principle guarantees the existence of a local inertial frame, and an accelerometer measures the acceleration relative to that frame. [4]

7. What is micro-walking? Woman loses 66 lbs by adding this ...

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   The study's goal is to better understand if adding minimal amounts of exercise can protect sedentary people’s hearts. ... “The goal was to walk at least 1,000 more steps a day,” Miller says ...

8. Nike+iPod - Wikipedia

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   The Nike+iPod Sport Kit is an activity tracker device, developed by Nike, Inc., which measures and records the distance and pace of a walk or run.The Nike+iPod consists of a small transmitter device attached to or embedded in a shoe, which communicates with either the Nike+ Sportband, or a receiver plugged into an iPod Nano.

9. The Unexpected Cardio Benefits Of Incorporating Walking Into ...

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   Walk/Run: 20 minutes (alternate between 2 minutes running and 3 minutes walking) 4 times per week, working up to 30 minutes (alternating between 4 minutes running and 2 minutes walking) five times ...