Best Pedometer Watch

People today are very health and fitness oriented. Many people choose to keep fit by walking, biking or running.

People today are very health and fitness oriented. Many people choose to keep fit by walking, biking or running. If you are one of these types of people you may be interested in keeping track of your activities.

A good way to keep track of such data as calories burned, distance covered and steps walked is with a pedometer watch. There are a lot of variations of pedometer watches on the market today.

Some of them combine a chronograph with a timer and alarms. These are usually the more sports oriented type of watches. Some offer advanced accelerator pedometer functions as well.

The pedometer watches with the advanced accelerator functions are good for keeping track of your activity data. All of these types of watches need to be turned on when activity begins, but they have the ability to turn themselves off when there is a certain time period of inactivity.

These are designed more for tracking a walking/running workout rather than an individual step count.

1. The Silva Tech 4.0 Accelerator Watch

There are several styles of the Silva Tech Accelerator watch. The watch comes in styles to suit both men and women. They come with assorted features and in many different colors – even pink! The watches all work the same way even though they vary in appearance.

The Silva Tech 4.0 lets you set on/off times for your total daily walking steps as much as 6 times a day. You can also use it to record manually when you decide to do a running or walking workout. This watch can estimate your distance, speed and calories burned while engaged in your activity. The watch also has sports functions such as a countdown timer, a 50-lap chronograph and a daily alarm. The pedometer can turn itself off after a period of inactivity, but this is something you can adjust to be a 30 minute inactivity period. The Silva Tech is capable of saving from seven days to as much as ten weeks of data.

2. Heart Rate Monitor/Pedometer Watch for Dummies D-75

The heart rate monitor watch comes with finger pads. The finger pads are for reading your heart rate when you choose. The information for using this watch is presented in a "Dummies" style of writing. It is easy and fun to understand. The accelerator pedometer feature allows for tracking of calories, steps, speed and distance. It also includes sports functions such as alarm, stopwatch, heart rate zone alert and countdown timer. However this watch is a bit on the large size.

3. Sportline Pedometer Heart Rate Watch 96 This is a do-it-all watch. It carries functions for sports, heart rate and pedometer all in one watch. You can set the pedometer function to be active during specific times of day or only when you actually begin a walking workout.

The watch has save abilities for seven times a day or ten weeks total. The Sportline has a finger pad for reading heart rate and also comes with a countdown timer, chronograph, lap timer and has a back light.