To achieve 10,000 steps a day, you need to walk around five miles or eight kilometres. If you're an avid walker who loves a ...

It wasn't doctors or researchers who set the bar at 10,000 steps. It was a brand. But decades later, we're still counting ...

Almost half of American adults don’t meet recommended weekly physical activity levels, but new BYU research suggests a surprisingly simple way to help increase exercise time: just strap on an activity ...

"The pedometer makes you much more aware of how sedentary you were. You look at the numbers and it's pathetic," Lynch said. "It gives you a goal to shoot for.

Sitting is looking less and less healthy, but it can be hard to get up off the couch and go. Using a pedometer can help change those habits, a study says. That's good to know, since employers ...

A pedometer is a small gadget that clips onto your hip and counts steps. These days, millions of people are using them, as public health campaigns and for-profit diet plans urge a daily target of ...

Pedometer users also had reductions in weight and blood pressure, Bravata found. The initial body mass index or BMI of the study participants averaged 30, which is considered obese.

In the case of a pedometer, once users put it on their belt and start walking, there's no need to use its buttons until they want to either change the display mode or reset the count, etc., again.

Einstein's Pedometer is an iPhone app that will let you know just how many extra nanoseconds, relatively speaking, you've gained by getting moving as opposed to sitting on your rear end.

The ActivityTracker Pedometer home screen shows your step count for the day, along with a ring that gauges how close you are to achieving your predetermined daily benchmark. Below that are ...

Pedometer apps are available for both iPhone and Android, and if you have an iPhone 5s or later, these apps won't even hit your battery life too hard. The M7 and M8 processors in these later-model ...