Adding Steps

SheBeyer
SheBeyer Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Can you add your daily steps manually in the free version?

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,943 Member
    Neither in the free nor in the paid version can you add steps. You can link a fitness tracker if you have a supported device. If you want to log steps related to your everyday activity outside of exercise you do this via your activity level. If you have less than 5000 steps per day (I think) you're sedentary, more than 20k you're in the highest category. And the third way is to log all your exercise here, as you should anyway.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,255 Member
    If you have a pedometer, you can figure out how many steps you walk in a mile and convert steps to miles. You can then estimate what a walking pace might be. Then you can tell MFP that you went for a walk for that many minutes.

    This will probably over-estimate your calorie burn though. Steps from normal daily activity should be counted in your activity level setting as @yirara suggests.

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