How many steps a day?
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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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I feel good when I exceed 8000. Last week, I was putting in about 18,000 a day for each of the five days we were at Disney World.2
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My daily goal is set to 10k steps.
I walk 1 mile on the treadmill first thing in the morning, walk around my office building at lunch and after dinner on the treadmill again.
Rest is set to 250 steps every hour (Fitbit timer)0 -
I get 11,000-12,000 not including my exercise steps. I am a teacher so it is pretty easy for me. If I included my exercise it would be closer to 19,000.1
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Good for you (said earnestly, not sarcastically). I understand wanting to shout it to the world, that's an outstanding number. But I'm grateful to all the other posters who showed that we can maintain fitness with much lower step counts (AnnPT77 especially).
As to me, I'm all over the map. When I'm "under the weather" which was most of the winter, it's sub 5k. When I'm feeling well it probably averages to 10k. I've only had a couple of days over 30k steps and that involved running.4 -
I work in a large, 10 story building.
I like to walk the halls reading documents and looking very busy when in fact I’m just getting my steps in.
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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.
She's getting her steps in. ;D2 -
I average 8,000. I struggle to hit 10,000.0
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A lot less than most. Excluding exercise, 5kish on most days.
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