How many Steps to you do a day on your fitness tracker
mpkpbk2015
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How many steps a day do you do on your fitness tracker? And do you track anything else with the device ? e.g. heart rate, sleep, etc.
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Last 7 days average: 3720 steps daily. It's higher in better weather, but maybe only 5000-6000 unless I do an intentional walk. I try to only do enough steps-based activity to stay conditioned to it. I have crummy knees, don't like to try to drive steps upward routinely because I'm likely to have more discomfort as a result.
I use it to track exercise pace, distance, and heart rate, among other things - whatever factors it will track that are relevant to particular activity I'm doing. (I don't swim enough to care about swimming stats, which tends to require a specialized device; I do use my watch in conjunction with a chest belt heart rate monitor for rowing, because the wrist-based monitor loses contact too often because of arm flexion, and gives me inaccurate data. The chest belt remedies that problem. I don't wear it all day, every day, just when doing activities where it's needful.) I mostly care about rowing (on water and machine), with some casual interest in biking and walking (i.e., intentional walks).
Mine theoretically tracks sleep, but routinely is inaccurate, so I ignore it. It regularly thinks I'm asleep (usually thinks REM sleep), for example, if I lay in bed in the AM and catch up on email/texts on my phone, or something like that. It also fails to identify wake-ups during the night (frequent for me) unless I actually move around a good bit when I wake up. (Usually I just look at my watch/clock and go right back to sleep, barely moving at all.) I've had the opportunity to compare its results to an in-hospital overnight sleep study, where I was all wired up to every possible kind of monitor. The fitness tracker showed something quite differently from the higher-tech monitoring, to say the least.
I also pay attention to resting heart rate, because that gives me feedback on my cardiovascular fitness: Gradually creeping upward over a long time is a hint that I'm not getting enough CV activity, or - on the flip side - that I'm overdoing higher-intensity exercise. A single unusual day is no big deal: For example, I'll usually see a little jump in resting heart rate the next day after noticeably exceeding my maintenance calories, but that fades away pretty fast. I use HR during exercise to limit highly intense exercise to frequencies/durations that are helpful to fitness, but not excessively fatiguing.
I like my device a lot, but I think it's useful to understand a little about how they do what they do. Some people seem to think the outputs are gospel truth, when they're typically approximations/estimates, better in some cases than others.1 -
Because I'm not back to work yet, I've been walk/run every other day, but walk at least 3 hours a day. 90 min in the morning and then 90 min before dinner.
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5000 every other day1
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I average a little over 14000 steps per day. I am 72 years old.8
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This isn't this week. I haven't been wearing it for a couple weeks but I took this ss for a friend about a month ago. It's a fairly typical week since the gym has been closed and I am not working (I work on my feet so I have more when I work)1 -
I do about 6000 - 7000 per day now - my goal is minimum 8000 but I never hit that anymore since working from home. If I don't walk my dogs one day it is even lower. I also track my heart rate, days of exercise, and sleep. I have terrible insomnia so when I hit 7 hours for the night it makes me very happy. (I hit 8 hours one day last week for the first time ever which was nice.)0
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ninerbuff what app are you using?0
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LindaRN I am inspired. 14,000 at 72. Wow0
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AnnPT77 thank you for being so detailed I appreciate the thought you put into your responses. They are very thought provoking.0
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Gail I track my sleep too I have mine set for 8 hours but I never seem to get more than 6. I also just started tracking my heart rate.0
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I just use a step tracker on my phone. My goal is >15000. My highest is around 28k.1
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Way to go DancingMoosie 28k is impressive.0
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I aim for 10,000; but I don't always hit it. I have a desk job and homeschool my kid in the evenings and cook/clean, all that fun stuff.
Most days I get it, but, sometimes my timing just doesn't work out. I probably miss it once every couple weeks.
Most of my steps are taken literally jogging around my dining room table while helping my kid with her math.1 -
it's turned off cold in Texas - we have a winter advisory thru tuesday of next week. It was 29 yesterday, 27 today and ice is forcasted for tomorrow. And temps in the teens over the weekend. And maybe real snow on Monday so I might follow your example and jog around my dining room table for my steps for the next couple of days too.1
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For me it varies day to day, but this is an overview of the past month:
My step count comes from:
- laps around my living room, while watching TV or being on my phone (something I started doing at the start of Covid-19, working from home full-time since then and missing my commute walks)
- running on the treadmill
- outdoor walks occasionally, which explains that 28k spike you see on the graph (15km walk on top of indoor laps)0 -
I'm currently a 14-15k average girl. Prior to lockdown it was more like 8k but plus swimming/gym etc1
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Wow all that in your livingroom. I like your graph. What app is that and what device are you using ? I love the details.0
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Fitbit. I have a Charge 3mpkpbk2015 wrote: »ninerbuff what app are you using?
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mpkpbk2015 wrote: »Wow all that in your livingroom. I like your graph. What app is that and what device are you using ? I love the details.
If you're talking about my graph, I have a Garmin 🙂 (and a big living/dining room 😁)1 -
As long as I get in my morning dog walk, which is most of the time, I'm usually somewhere between 10K-12K depending on if I'm WFH or working in the office. I have a desk job, so if I miss my morning walk I can easily have only around 2500 steps by the time I close up shop, especially if I'm WFH...I tend to get more steps in when I'm actually in person in the office as I have to walk further to go to the bathroom, or I need to go talk to a colleague, or go see someone on a different floor, etc.
I don't really strive for any more than that as for me personally, it becomes a point of diminishing returns and would eat into other exercise, workouts, and recreational activities that I enjoy, most of which aren't step based. I cycle quite a bit and wouldn't personally want to give that up, or give up time in the weight room just so I could get more steps in.1 -
Yes Lietechi I was talking about your graph it's very detailed. I have been going up and down the stairs and around my whole house for about an hour since it's in the 20's outside trying to get my steps in today. Taking a break right now. Will get back at it in a few.0
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I have to say I really like my Garmin, loads of stats and graphs in the app, not just for steps 🙂2
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I have the health tracker app on my phone. This is my graph from last week.
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DancingMoosie wrote: »I have the health tracker app on my phone. This is my graph from last week.
Impressive - I like the stars - you rock. I did 12,875 today going to bed now. Whew and that was a stretch from my 10,000 found new energy today. Building to 15,0000 -
mpkpbk2015 wrote: »How many steps a day do you do on your fitness tracker? And do you track anything else with the device ? e.g. heart rate, sleep, etc.
Not usually the same every day. I try for 7000-90000 -
mpkpbk2015 wrote: »How many steps a day do you do on your fitness tracker? And do you track anything else with the device ? e.g. heart rate, sleep, etc.
Not usually the same every day. I try for 7000-9000
Thanks for your input, have a great day. Try and stay warm it's cold all over.🌹0
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