February Step Challenge

January total: 594 912, January average: 21 247

February 1: 24 267
February 2: 31 090

February Total: 55 357, February average: 27 679

Would love to know tips from people who walk 15,000 + steps a day. Very impressive!

Caro, I don't have a car, so that probably helps me out getting steps right there. I walk to the bus stop, then rather than just standing there waiting for the bus, I walk up and down the sidewalk a bit. I walk from the bus stop to work, and I use some of the same tricks that Dancingj2 uses, pushing to the next thousand when I see I am close. I usually walk around the office while eating lunch (people have mostly stopped giving me weird looks, lol). I walk around the house while waiting for my tea to steep. And I got some Leslie Sansone walking DVDs so that even if I don't want to walk outside, I can walk inside. I march in place or do sidesteps, etc. while watching movies and so on and so forth. I tend to do a few minutes of walking every hour or two instead of sitting down and not moving through a two-hour movie. Oh, and I walk while talking on the phone! A forty-minute conversation with my mother now gives me about 4000 steps instead of forty minutes of sitting in an armchair (and I don't even notice the time passing). I find that the little stuff really adds up throughout the day, and my Fitbit has just made me a lot more conscious of when I'm not moving.

Average goal -- 12,000
January Average -- 11,833

February 1 -- 20,893
February 2 -- 10,948

You guys are some serious steppers


Feb 3 - 10,300

Count me in, I am striving for 15000 a day...

Well here is mine for today ... 4,667 .... I still cant see how you do all them steps in one day. I will keep trying.

Feb 1...12196
Feb 2... 5121
Feb 3...10464

Since October I've averaged 13,601 a day.
My goal this month is to see 15,000 as many days as possible.

Some tips...
1- park at the far end of the parking lot
2- take the stairs when possible
3- park at the opposite end of the mall than the store you're going to
4- in the office, take a lap around the office each time you go to the toilet
5- walk while doing other things....I walk and read a lot
6- use 'map my fitness' app for walks as you get a visual of where you've gone....it motivates me

November average----9,823 steps
December average---17,197 steps
January average

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21,701 steps


February 1----18,723 steps
February 2---23,215 steps
February 3----22,129 steps

My tricks for getting more steps

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I go to bed early instead of "relaxing" in the evening watching TV or messing about on the computer, then I can get up extra early and take a long walk before I have to shower and dress for my daily events......walking while talking on the phone, walking while waiting for anything rather than sitting.....always be on the lookout for an opportunity to be moving.

We have houseguests......yesterday afternoon, I said, "Let's go for a walk" and we walked around the neighborhood for more than 90 minutes.



“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Average goal -- 12,000
January Average -- 11,833

February 1 -- 20,893
February 2 -- 10,948
February 3 -- 17,741

2/1 9,014
2/2 14,585
2/3 10,352
2/4 13,710

Feb 1...12196
Feb 2... 5121
Feb 3...10464
Feb 4... 8605

November average----9,823 steps
December average---17,197 steps
January average

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21,701 steps


February 1----18,723 steps
February 2---23,215 steps
February 3----22,129 steps
February 4---22,182 steps




“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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January total: 594 912, January average: 21 247

February 1: 24 267
February 2: 31 090
February 3: 23 029
February 4: 22 054

February Total: 100 440, February average: 25 110

Congrats to everyone for getting off to a great start in February! Looks like we've all got some great "tricks" to walk more during the day! ^_^

Recording movies to watch on my treadmill is really helping me keep my count up happy

Great that you've got something that works!