Calories burned walking at work

stanmann571

DX2JX2 wrote: »

stanmann571 wrote: »

DX2JX2 wrote: »

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

It depends how busy I am at work. If I'm very busy and stuck at my computer all day, then about 4,000 steps max. If I have a little extra time, I will make an effort to get up and walk more and can usually get to 10,000. I work in a large building, so I can take the short route to the bathroom (200 steps round-trip), or the long route to the bathroom (1,500 steps round trip). Even without extra effort, it's 2,000 steps to my office mailbox round trip and about 800 steps from my office to my car.

isn't 1,500 steps pretty close to a mile? That's a heck of a long-way around!

2000 steps is normally a mile for most people of normal height(5'4"=6'2"

Still...3/4 of a mile to/from the bathroom requires some dedication (or very poor office planning)!

Or just using an inconvenient bathroom.

In the building where I work, I can walk up to a bathroom(that is a 1500 step round trip)... Or I can walk(400 step round trip) to a closer one... or several in between.

SuzySunshine99

DX2JX2 wrote: »

stanmann571 wrote: »

DX2JX2 wrote: »

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

It depends how busy I am at work. If I'm very busy and stuck at my computer all day, then about 4,000 steps max. If I have a little extra time, I will make an effort to get up and walk more and can usually get to 10,000. I work in a large building, so I can take the short route to the bathroom (200 steps round-trip), or the long route to the bathroom (1,500 steps round trip). Even without extra effort, it's 2,000 steps to my office mailbox round trip and about 800 steps from my office to my car.

isn't 1,500 steps pretty close to a mile? That's a heck of a long-way around!

2000 steps is normally a mile for most people of normal height(5'4"=6'2"

Still...3/4 of a mile to/from the bathroom requires some dedication (or very poor office planning)!

Ha! Not poor office planning...basically, my building is a large oval shape, so there's a short way and a long way to get everywhere depending on which direction you walk. I can make a left or right turn out of my office and eventually end up in the same place.

Abby2205

I initially got a cheap pedometer for curiosity too: I knew I was sedentary but had heard about "10,000 steps a day" and wanted to see how bad I really was (drive to train station, sit on train, sit at desk). I was surprised to see that I was getting minimum 5,000 per day, and routinely doing 8,000 or more. My "drive-sit-sit" is actually: park car, up two flights of stairs, walk across bridge, down two flights to train, walk 10 minutes to work, get up from desk 20 times to go to kitchen, bathroom, lunchroom, printer, go out at lunch to library, shopping, errands, etc.
This little test motivated me to get a Fitbit One, and to start incrementally adding more steps and stairs. The Fitbit also showed me that I am fidgety: I go up and down the stairs at home at least 10 times a day, and even when I'm sick I'll get 3,000 steps when I thought I spent all day in bed or on the couch.