Move More? Compete with Yourself
It's true for me. Wearing a pedometer (in my case, ActiveLink from WeightWatchers) can make you move more. I just love seeing that little graph on my computer racing through the calories I've burned off running or walking or swimming, and it makes me want to do more. My highest count so far was 450 calories burned during one exercise marathon. But I haven't yet worn it at Zumba, where I suspect it will go even higher. The bottom line is that all these new electronic gadgets tend to make you want to exercise more and if you're a Type A like me, you just want it to go up and up and up. They've been around for a while but it took some shoves to get me going. I run two to four miles every day (annoyingly, they clock your activity for one week, then describe you -- and I came out as an "occasional athlete"), but it spurs you on, at least me on, to want to do better and better, even break your record from the day before. (My sister-in-law, who's...