Step counter and walking km
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Hi,
Just wondering if 6.72km walk could possibly be done on 3002 steps? How tall should I be?
Is it a step counter bug?
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@TiagoSPM I’ve always seen stepcounters as a gimmick. They just can’t give reliable data because the sensor is mounted on your arm so every other movement of the arm during a walk can potentially count or miscount a step. To me, stepcount is a useless metric. No idea how it can help in a training? Next time I want more steps in the same distance or something???
All step counters are doing the best they can but can never be reliable if you’re not moving exactly like the algorithm wants you to.
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@surfboomerang said in Step counter and walking km:
@TiagoSPM I’ve always seen stepcounters as a gimmick. They just can’t give reliable data because the sensor is mounted on your arm so every other movement of the arm during a walk can potentially count or miscount a step. To me, stepcount is a useless metric. No idea how it can help in a training? Next time I want more steps in the same distance or something???
All step counters are doing the best they can but can never be reliable if you’re not moving exactly like the algorithm wants you to.
Suunto 3 5 and 7 had a dedicated context sensor to count the steps, it’s why they are better than S9 on counting steps.
The weird stuff is this context sensor doesn’t come with S9 or any other suunto flagship watches.
It’s not the target population they said.