Be Fit With Biray

A great pedometer tracking website and online community is www.WalkerTracker.com
It is a FREE site (which is always good) which allows you to log your daily steps.
Over the summer I taught an Intro to Health class at MCC.  I provided each of my students with a pedometer.  I gave them 1 point for every 10,000 steps they documented online over the course of the 4-week session.  Students logged between zero to 10,000+ steps.  Tracking daily steps online proved to be an effective and quick way in raising awareness in their levels of physical activity.

The site is set up as an online community, much like MySpace and Facebook.  Walkers are able to link their profile to other friends (aka by adding “comrads”) within the community.  Thus having access to all the step reports (aka step blogs) of each comrad.  As a teacher, I found this to be important in tracking the progress of my students.  (Personal Trainers could easily use this site to track clients’ daily step counts.)

Like many online communities, members have the ability to communicate with other walkers via private messaging or by commenting on another step blog.  (For example, those students who walked over 10,000 steps, I would write comments supporting their accomplishments.  But those who were deficient in their step count found a more encouraging comments from me.)  This became integral in terms of adherence to walking and tracking.  Students were commenting on other students’ progress and keeping each other motivated.

If you haven’t explored this site, take some time this week to check it out.  There are other sites that provide similar services, but I found this to be very user-friendly and fun!