Pedometer Challenge

Stepping up the pace at work.

The staff at Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated have been challenged to participate in the Pedometer 10000 steps a day programme.

In a nutshell, we each received a little gadget that is worn on the hip that counts steps you take. When you enter your stride length, the pedometer will calculate your distance walked and with your weight it can calculate the approximate number of calories burned.

Why are we doing this?

To motivate ourselves and be good examples to our whanau and other maori in our community.

Why a pedometer?

More than 60% of adults do not achieve the recommended amount of physical activity needed in a day and 25% of adults are not physically active at all. While many people believe only vigorous activity such as jogging and weight lifting count towards fitness, users who increase their number of steps consistently show improvement in weight, body fat, cholesterol level and overall fitness level.

If you like gadgets, this little and fairly inexpensive device will tell you exactly how many steps you have taken towards your goal and will help you keep pushing to your eventual target number of steps a day.

What’s the objective?

The objective is to get you walking more. The goal is to walk 10000 steps per day. Presently we walk an average of 5000 – 8000 steps per day an average of 2.5 - 4.0kms per day.

Each day, staff members record their pedometer reading onto a poster size monitoring sheet.

For the next two months, we will be monitoring our steps live. You can watch and see how we slowly progress to a new level each day. We hope that this will motivate you to walk and do the same. Click here to see our progress