Free tools for your next walk.
No account, nothing stored: every answer stays on your screen. The full versions, with your history saved, are in the courses.
Which course fits you now?
Three questions, one recommendation.
Your five walking zones.
Walkers spend most of their time in Zone 2; the upper zones are for hills and short efforts. Maximum heart rate is estimated as 220 minus your age, the standard used across the course. Add your resting pulse (taken in bed on waking) and the zones use your heart-rate reserve (the Karvonen method), so they fit you more closely.
How far do you walk in six minutes?
The test doctors and physiotherapists use. Walk back and forth on a flat, measured stretch (30 metres is standard) as far as you comfortably can in six minutes, then enter the distance. The predicted distance uses the Enright & Sherrill (1998) reference equations, the same ones the course uses.
How many steps, for you?
What the research says about daily steps, by age, and your next small step up from where you are now.