Step Goal
Ruben_244
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What’s everyone’s step goal for the day? I know the general goal should be 10K but just curious. I believe different people have different goals we are in different stages in our fit life. I have a daily step goal of 12K if I hit 12K in a day I know I’ve had a good day physically. 🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏻♂️
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A good physical day for me includes non stepping exercises and most of my dresses don't have pockets for my phone when I am dancing, so I have my goal set to 9k.
I bet Google fit asks me to reconsider soon; multiple hikes in one week throw off the averages!1 -
8K. I have a desk job so hitting more than that is difficult and I have to get up and deliberately move around to hit it. My deliberate exercise is not step based either...I lift and cycle.0
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Mine's 7K. Desk job too. I have to get up and walk around the office on my breaks in order to hit it. So it's just challenging enough and keeps me from the sedentary activity level. On days with purposful excersise I tend to hit 10k pretty easily.1
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Mine is 6000 before purposeful exercise1
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I had always tried to get to the 10,000 mark. But recently I've focused on a stair-climbing goal instead. I'm trying to get to 40 flights of stairs each day. I no longer take the elevator at work unless I'm carrying something heavy.3
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In past years I’ve always had my Fitbit goal set to the default 10K.
This year I’ve changed my step goal is 12K as I’m trying to walk/run 2019 miles by the end of the year.3 -
The 10K goal was actually a fairly arbitrary number -- there's no real science behind that figure.
My goal is to do at least 350 calories a day through intentional exercise and my walking commute.1 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »8K. I have a desk job so hitting more than that is difficult and I have to get up and deliberately move around to hit it. My deliberate exercise is not step based either...I lift and cycle.
That’s actually very true wolfman. I agree with you 100%. I also work a desk job and can totally relate to your post along with the others who have to go the extra mile to obtain those steps throughout the day.
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I had always tried to get to the 10,000 mark. But recently I've focused on a stair-climbing goal instead. I'm trying to get to 40 flights of stairs each day. I no longer take the elevator at work unless I'm carrying something heavy.
40 flights of stairs is awesome Suzy! I bet that’s a great leg/quad workout!1 -
Mine is about 7,000 before exercise. I usually run as a workout and that brings it up to 10,000. I'm a student-teacher so I'm on my feet a lot. I still find myself walking around the classroom just to fit my steps in.0
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Not being snarky: Most of the time, however many steps accumulate while doing the things I need to do.
I rarely walk for exercise (gasp!). I'm a fairly active li'l ol' lady (regular rowing boat/machine and spin classes, mostly but not entirely), age 63. However, I'm working with bad knees (torn meniscus for which I'm deferring surgery as long as tolerable, and some osteoarthritis). From experiment, I've learned that risk points for me are activities that involve impact (like walking, let alone running), or torque (stuff like Zumba, tennis, etc.)
I just try to walk enough to stay conditioned to it, enough so I can enjoy walking-intense other activities like music festivals, art fairs, etc. I can walk a few miles without major problems, but it's not something I should do often.
I'm not saying any of this to be critical: I think step goals are a wonderful thing, and a great way to increase either exercise, or non-exercise activity level, depending on how you think of it.
I'm just chiming in so that there's a voice for those who may not be able to hit a high steps goal. It's often talked about popularly as if one ought to push for a high step count, but it's not an essential, irreplaceable element in weight loss, fitness or health. I lost weight just fine with minimal walking (let's say 1500-5,000 steps most days), am reasonably fit (quite so among my age group), and pretty healthy.8 -
Not being snarky: Most of the time, however many steps accumulate while doing the things I need to do.
I rarely walk for exercise (gasp!). I'm a fairly active li'l ol' lady (regular rowing boat/machine and spin classes, mostly but not entirely), age 63. However, I'm working with bad knees (torn meniscus for which I'm deferring surgery as long as tolerable, and some osteoarthritis). From experiment, I've learned that risk points for me are activities that involve impact (like walking, let alone running), or torque (stuff like Zumba, tennis, etc.)
I just try to walk enough to stay conditioned to it, enough so I can enjoy walking-intense other activities like music festivals, art fairs, etc. I can walk a few miles without major problems, but it's not something I should do often.
I'm not saying any of this to be critical: I think step goals are a wonderful thing, and a great way to increase either exercise, or non-exercise activity level, depending on how you think of it.
I'm just chiming in so that there's a voice for those who may not be able to hit a high steps goal. It's often talked about popularly as if one ought to push for a high step count, but it's not an essential, irreplaceable element in weight loss, fitness or health. I lost weight just fine with minimal walking (let's say 1500-5,000 steps most days), am reasonably fit (quite so among my age group), and pretty healthy.
Agreed. If I'm choosing between more purposeful workouts or steps, I'm going with the workout. I've even known people to forgo more purposeful exercise just so they can do more steps. 8,000 is the high water mark for me and I'm usually closer to 6,000. To get more, I would have to forgo my lifting sessions and go for a walk instead of a good long bike ride and that isn't happening.
I mainly look at my steps as a way to avoid being sedentary in my day to day, so I'm good with anything over 5,000...but there are lots of days when I'll look at my FitBit at quitting time at the office and they're like 2,500 or something.
On a somewhat weird tangent, I quit smoking cigarettes in the fall of 2012...my steps went way down from not walking to the far flung smoking area of the office parking lot...less steps, but far healthier for it.5 -
I aim for 10k a day. Sometimes this is a struggle with school. Sitting in class for 4-6 hours a day does not help! Working days I get an average of 14-15k.
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Hi! I have had two hips and a knee replaced as a result of 22 years of refinery work.
I wear my Fitbit every day as I believe it gives me a very accurate TDEE for each day. I too can't tolerate impact walking. However my Gazelle counts my steps very accurately with no impact at all. Love it!
Congratulations to all of you for being so dedicated to your health!2 -
I’m not a step counter.
Like @AnnPT77 and @cwolfman13, I am active in other ways.
A few years ago I borrowed a Fitbit and found that being so focused on getting steps in, everything else, which had much more varied movement, suffered.
That being said, there was a similar conversation a couple of weeks ago and I decided to look at the tracker thing that comes on an IPhone.
Apparently I averaged 6500 steps a day last year. Got to say a lot of those days were probably a couple of thousand under, and quite a few were a few thousand over.
I don’t have a goal, can’t see me having one in the near future. I just try to keep a reasonable amount of movement in my day, and do some form of exercise 5x60 a week.
Cheers, h.
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I set mine to 10k as well when I first got my Fitbit but having an active job(s) I have no problem hitting it during the week. I routinely hit a minimum of 17,000 to as much as 25,000 with the higher end being days I work 2 jobs. I bought a treadmill nearly 3 years ago before finding this app and getting the Fitbit and now only really get on it over the weekends after realizing I actually was quite active and just needed to eat healthier.2
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I have mine set at 15,000 steps but average over 20,000. 15,000 gives me the amount of food I like to eat (don't know how I'd cope with less than 2000 calories anymore) and walking is the exercise I can do and enjoy.2
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5-6K on a non workout day, 10K on a workout day1
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My step goal is just 5,000 a day. This motivates me to get up every now and then and move or park further away at the grocery store. I can't imagine hitting 10K without deliberately spending hours of my day walking! I already exercise 4-6 times a week; what more do you want from me?!? Haha1
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