How do you hit 10K steps with a desk job?

ScubaSteve1962

Everyone is so caught up on steps, but if you do just 15 mins of vigorous cardio that throws the steps out. Vigorous is determined by taking 135 steps or more per min, or a steady heart rate of 80% or more for 15+ mins

BabyDollSaxon

I go for a morning walk half hr before work. I also go for a half hr walk at lunch. I don't get my 10k at work but I do get about 7k and I get the rest after work. I can't just sit there. I have to get up and walk around.

ashleesaid

I usually hit 5000-6000 from work at my desk job, where I either walk some on lunch break or run an errand. I also go to the 1st floor (I work on the 4th) for about half my potty breaks (and use the stairs both ways). I go to the gym after work and that gets me to about 9000 or so, then getting the rest is relatively easy once I get home and just move around. I don't hit 10k on the days I don't go to the gym though.

ashliedelgado

I work in a doctors office, and we're down a provider so some days are busier than others... I get up and walk the loop in the building twice every hour, and I have two high energy dogs that if I don't walk for at least 45 minutes at night will not let me sleep. Parking far away. Etc. On a busy at work day I can get close to 18k, but its usually 12-14k. Getting a dog was the best thing I did for my steps! Even if I don't want to walk, they *need* me to walk.

cchen2015

I use subway for my daily commute, take longer routes from home and get off 2 stops earlier, take a 30~minutes walk during lunch break, usually hit 12K steps by the end of the day. I don't count gym steps(use a HRM for gym workout). Commute counts a lot--I'm lucky to live in a city that is walking friendly.

LivingtheLeanDream

I have a desk job, I hit 10k before I go to work by running. ...I get around 3k at work from going between offices and when I get home I walk/ cook/housework and get another 7k

20k is my daily average. ..totally doable when we put our minds to do it

pinkgumdrop123

Desk job here.. I usually hit 5-6 k by the time I get home. I work out 4-5 times a week though and those days I'm usually way above 10 k . I just try and look at it as a weekly goal rather than a daily goal.

LilMissLisaC

I've been trying to get my 10k in before breakfast so that everything else is a bonus. I'm in a small office so only hit around 3k even with walking to and from work, I know and have accepted that I need to make a concious effort to move more. x

WhatMeRunning

I have the same problem. The only way I can get to 10k+ steps on a work day typically requires at least 3, preferably 4 miles of running (or if you don't run then walking). Otherwise it is typically just not possible. Weekends are different. Chores, store runs, lawns, etc and 10k+ is easy. Let alone the fact that I do my long runs on the weekends...so 10k is usually out of the way in the first hour after waking on weekends (but only because of the long runs).

WhatMeRunning

ninerbuff wrote: »

You MAKE time before/during/after work if you want to reach it. A desk job isn't the reason, it's just a deterrence. If it's something you want to meet, then you find a way to do it.

Oh, and this really is the painful truth. I never really started regularly breaking 10k+ steps per day until I started marathon training, switching from running 3 days/week to 5 days/week, and the distances made 10k pretty much a given on those 5 days. So I only needed to strive to hit 10k on those other 2 days...or not. Mostly not because my average daily steps are well over 10k/day over the course of a week.

Just keep building up, steadily over time. You can get there eventually even with a full time desk job that plants you in a seat all day.

NellaBella718

Great suggestions.