How to Estimate Your Walking Speed

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Video Transcript

"How to estimate your walking speed. Now it's pretty easy because I'm going to be on a treadmill and a treadmill is pretty much self explanatory in showing you how to estimate different levels or different walk speeds. So what I'm going to do is turn on the treadmill and kind of point out how you can get to there or how you can figure it out as fast as possible. So to find your walking speed on the treadmill is pretty self explanatory. I hit quick start. Treadmill starts going. Now over here on the right side, now again every treadmill is different but over on the right side it's going to show you your distance and then there's an option for average speed. All you're going to do is press the button. And that's going to give you your average speed. So right now I'm walking one mile per hour and that's my walking speed on the treadmill. Now we're going to calculate your walking speed as if you're outside. So we're going to use a mile. Now again different equations work for different people. This equation works best for me so hopefully it will work for you. Alright one mile. Say you walk one mile in ten minutes. So there's sixty minutes in one hour so we want to walk miles per hour. So sixty minutes over ten minutes. So you're going to divide sixty; you're going to divide ten into sixty and that's going to give you six, which is 6.0 miles per hour. So if you walk one mile in ten minutes, the divisor of sixty gives you 6.0 miles per hour."