1. Home
  2. Health
  3. Walking

Using the Nike+iPod Sensor

By Wendy Bumgardner, About.com Guide

About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board

5 of 9

Attaching the Nike+ Sensor to Your Shoe With Velcro

Velcro

Velcro

Wendy Bumgardner © 2006
You can securely attach the Nike+iPod sensor to most any shoe using velcro. As the sensor might be at a slight tilt, you will need to recalibrate it after you created its new velcro attachment.

Note that once you have attached the Velcro, you would have to remove the Velcro to use the same sensor in a Nike+ ready shoe. Velcro is cheap, so it would be possible to simply replace it each time you watnted to switch. Or you could use 1 sensor for the Nike+ ready shoe and 1 for other shoes where you need to attach it with Velcro.

First, buy a good quality of Velcro. I purchased heavy-duty velcro for the job. The cost is a couple of dollars, and it can be found at an office supply store.

Trim a piece of smooth Velcro to attach to the tongue of the shoe. This piece can be larger than the other piece that you will attach the to sensor. You want to be able to position the sensor as desired on the tongue, so more velcro on the tongue is good.

Trim a smaller piece of the "male" rough Velcro to attach to the sensor. It should be small enough not to overlap the on/off switch on the sensor.

Explore Walking
About.com Special Features

Learn how you can reduce your your numbers with these nutrition and exercise tips. More >

Keep yourself, and your family, happy and healthy this fall with these tips. More >

We comply with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information: verify here.
  1. Home
  2. Health
  3. Walking
  4. Pedometer Walking
  5. Pedometers
  6. Attaching the Nike+ Sensor to Your Shoe With Velcro

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.