How do you hit 10K steps with a desk job?

I have a desk job. I usually get 5-6k at work. Then I go to the gym and do a Zumba class and hit ~11k. Go home, do some light chores, maybe go for a 30-minute walk with my husband... I usually break 14k. It doesn't feel like a lot of effort.

jlahorn wrote: »

I have a desk job. I usually get 5-6k at work. Then I go to the gym and do a Zumba class and hit ~11k. Go home, do some light chores, maybe go for a 30-minute walk with my husband... I usually break 14k. It doesn't feel like a lot of effort.

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I can't hit >10,000 inside the office (even with a walk at lunch). A 10,000 step goal takes time to develop. Just increase your goal by 1,000 or so every couple of weeks and it will happen.

slickmickey wrote: »

help! i feel like i'm going to have to do a 5k every day if i want to have a shot at making 10000 steps.

What would be wrong with that? It would be a fantastic, time-efficient exercise.

IT guy here. I hit 15K.

NOT including cardio: usually 1,500 from wake up to sitting at my desk. I park farther away in the lot. About every hour I walk to the lunch room and refill my water bottle, 200 steps directly, but I'm on the first floor and so is the lunch room. So I walk up to the third floor, cross to the far side of the building, walk back down to the lunch room and then back to my desk, 400-500 steps each trip, sometimes I walk back up to the 3rd floor and back to my desk. I walk at lunch if it's nice, if not I walk the hallways, 3000-4000 steps. Then another 1,500 at home.

Now when I toss in my Tuesday and Thursdays runs, that's 5,000-7,000 extra steps for a 40 minute run.

I try to walk with my wife every night, another 3,000 or so.

When I weight lift on M,W,F for 60-90 minutes; it starts with a 10-15 minute walking warmup, then I'm walking around between sets for 3,000 or so.

Currently at 109,987 for the last 7 days.

While I don't have a desk job, I don't strive to hit the 10000 magical step, but the CDC recommended 7000 steps a day, with that said, I hit mine by going to the gym every morning, doing 60 mins of intense cardio gets me past the 10k mark every day. I usually hit somewhere between 15k and 24k a day.

i'm also an IT guy, and like erockem above, i'm lucky enough to have a pretty decent-sized campus to cover during the course of a day...but i usually end up with a deficit at the end of the workday, and have to make it up at some point during the day. if it's a non-gym day, i'll literally throw on the shorts and a t-shirt and go for a walk at night (when it's not miserably humid here in Nashville) with my phone in my pocket to make up my 10K goal.

since taking up cycling and joining the gym, it's been less of a priority to make absolutely sure that i meet the goal every day, but i still make an effort to get as many in as i can. last night at the gym, i did an hour on the treadmill and 40 minutes on the bike, just because it was so late when i got there that i had no gas in the tank for the weight circuit.

With the larger campus I bumped to 15k. And I still have to do 'extra' just to hit my goal. Lucky enough, that my work from home days fall on my running days or I'd struggle to hit 5k on T/Th.

Some days I drive myself nuts to get all my steps, those days I usually end up short about 2-4k. I'm sure my fitbit is counting backwards on those days. Those days I look at my average for the last 7 days. If your's is above 70k, that's 10k a day. Catch the extra steps on other days.

Today I met with a vendor so I worked from home the rest of the day and it's been raining. At 3.5k so far @ 5:00pm, I'll be lucky to catch another 4-5k at the Y tonight so I'm looking at the big picture, for the week I'm now @ 110k, I just needed to be above 105k. Tomorrow were heading to state fair which is usually about 11 miles of walking.

I'm an editor and although I could get up at 7a, I get up at 530a to go for an hour walk. That takes care of about 7k of the 12k per day. I pick up the rest during the day with 2 "walk breaks" and an evening stroll with hubby and the dog. I couldn't make 10k per day without the AM walk. I tried all sorts of combos and discovered that just getting up earlier and doing it AM was the easiest way to guarantee I'd get them. After about a month, it was no biggie. I self-adjusted my bedtime to about 45 minutes earlier and voila! Done.

I can't hit 10,000 either. I have a tiny walk to my office, and the office is tiny and I am lucky with the bathroom just steps away. The water cooler is upstairs and the lunch room. I try a few squats jumping jacks in the bathroom. But I fail at it too. Plus an hour commute each way doesn't help me either. But I am losing and that is what matters to me.

I go take a walk around the mall or the store if I haven't gotten all my steps in. I also work a desk job at a factory so I'll walk around the factory twice a day. There's always places to just walk around.

I have a desk job too and unless I go for my lunch time workout or workout with my trainer twice a week I can't hit 10,000 either. I must try harder!

Desk job here. I clock up nearly 2k each way on my commute (walking to and from bus stops) and then spend 45 minutes of each lunch hour walking outside (usually with music to keep my pace up). I usually hit 10k shortly before reaching my front door on the way back.

I have a desk job too. I have an understanding with my boss that I need to walk during lunch.

I clocked 5000 steps last night in my condo. Just walking around, walking in place, whatever I had to do to reach my daily goal. It is 90 and humid here, so no outdoors activity for a few days. I will continue the house walking as long as I have to.