How many steps a day?
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6-12,000 all are "non-exercise" steps--just part of my life.0
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All of them.0
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Nope I have a desk job I'm up at 5 to do a 57 minute kickboxing workout and I run to get to 12,000 before breakfast, I walk for my hour long lunch to get to my 20, 000, I get a few steps at work depending on the day maybe 1, 000 for the rest I walk once I get home at night unless I have dance class!
That’s an average of walking 15 miles a day! My husband is a chef on his feet all day and averages 15-20000 steps. He will hit 25000 on the days he runs instead of lifting after work. I can’t imagine consistently getting more than that, especially with a desk job. I have a desk job and average 8-9k. Twice a week I run before work and do Jazzercize for an hour after work (my double down days) and I get about 14k those days.0 -
30k is a lot, kudos on that! My personal daily goal is 15k, but my average so far this month is 21k. We’re in “omg it’s spring, it’s warm, let’s go outside FOREVER” mode right now - so it’s sort of artificially heightened due to that. A 15k daily goal feels really good to me normally though, it tends to be just enough of a stretch that it pushes me to find reasons to move.1
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I have been getting 16000 lately, and I am a 70 yr old female!7
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Mon-Sat, at least 15k. On Sunday 's 9-12k.1
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You all are inspiring me to up my game!1
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Idk about the poster but before I transitioned into working from home I would get 10-15k a day at work alone (floor nurse on a busy unit). Then my hour long workout was step based, another 5-6k and if I went shopping that day lol. But 30k is wow on the regular. Now that I work from home I struggle to get 3-5k.2 -
I aim for 20000 as a minimum, but 3 days a week I do over 30000 and on Sunday I did 70000 (I ran a marathon though, not a humble brag, a full on not at all humble brag)2
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I’m not sure everyone can make it work though and have it be good for them. I know for me it would require sacrificing sleep (I can’t walk by my house so I’d need to drive somewhere then come home to get kids to school before work) that I need and replacing my weight sessions with additional cardio which doesn’t align with my goals. Additionally it might not be physically possible for everyone.
I think it’s great it works for you and your goals. I just don’t want anyone coming here thinking it’s a competition or something they need to feel bad about if they cannot achieve it for any reason.
I want to increase my daily step goal personally to 12-15k and am inspired by this thread.3 -
There's no way I could make that work...I'd have to give up weight lifting and cycling and swimming. Besides walking my dog for a mile in the morning and getting up from my desk every hour, very little of my exercise is step based, and most of it is of higher intensity. Trying to work in that many steps for myself would be a very inefficient way of going about exercise.1 -
Usually well under 5000 in Winter, often only 3000-some. Maybe 6000ish in summer.
In year 3 of maintenance, maintaining on calories well over MFP's estimate, and reasonably fit despite low step counts, because all my exercise, including "cardio" (oh, how I dislike that term! ), is non-step-based.
. . . . lest anyone have the misimpression that high steps counts are essential.
And in this thread, yes, that's a humblebrag. Heh. :drinker:4 -
In the winter, under 5000. sometimes closer to 3000. During the spring/summer/fall, usually around 8,000.1
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my son has a pedometer. 8-year old that doesn't sit down, hit 37,000, so working a full time desk job I could not imagine getting 30,000 unless all I did was walk the rest of my waking hours.5
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My goal is to get in 10,000 non-exercise steps every day. I just want to be moving. Lately, I have been reading while I walk on my work breaks. I want more movement and more reading, so I have combined the two.0
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lawsonsaysread wrote: »My goal is to get in 10,000 non-exercise steps every day. I just want to be moving. Lately, I have been reading while I walk on my work breaks. I want more movement and more reading, so I have combined the two.
Just be careful!0 -
Not including intentional exercise, my normal daily step count is around 5k.
I have a mostly desk job. I need to work on getting my daily steps higher.1 -
10-15k0
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