How do you get 10,000 steps a day?
Freckledmama1
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I am a proud owner of a Fitbit flex and am challenging myself to achieve 10,000 steps a day on top of my exercise routine. I am a preschool teacher, during the week I more often than not reach my goal. But, on the weekend I fall way behind. I still do my exercise routine on the weekends. What are some ideas we have to get more steps in on days we don't work, or for mfp users who have a job that requires a lot of sitting?
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I just do little tricks and my husband thinks I am nuts lol. If I go to the kitchen to get a drink I walk around the island a few times. Or if I am watching tv during the commercials I get up and walk around the living room. Also, when putting away laundry I fold it downstairs and put 1 room away at a time. Each time coming back downstairs to get the next rooms stuff (bathroom, kids room, my room).0
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When out and about on the weekend, park your car the furthest away from the store/library/whatever.
Also, build in a walk each day of the weekend in your calendar. Making it routine and scheduled helps.0 -
Set up a reward system. Say, if you get your steps in, you can take a nap. Or watch your favorite show, or whatever would motivate you.0
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I don't work and do grad school everyday online so if I don't force myself to get the steps in I can go a whole day getting like 2k steps. I walk the dogs and walk around the neighborhood myself. If its the end of the day I will even just walk around the house haha.0
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Park further away, walk the stairs at lunch, I make myself move and take extra steps to get where I want to go. If I go to a grocery, I walk the long way around the isles, rather than just going for what I need.0
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To be honest, I don't worry about it on Saturday and Sunday. I do my two mile walk on Saturday and combined with housework, I will hit about 8000 steps. If I feel like getting to 10000 I will, but if I don't I'm ok with it0
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*cough* I walk circles around my apartment *cough
I also park in the very back of parking lots to help get more steps in.
If the weather isn't too bad and I only need 1 or 2 things from the store, I will walk.
When the weather is nice, I walk my boys to the park. The park we go to depends on what I'm up to. Their favorite park is 3 miles away.0 -
I run at least 5k every day.
Done.
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I get at least 16,000 steps every day - my Garmin Vivofit keeps increasing my step goal, and I guess I want to keep up with it!
On weekends, these steps (and more) come from hiking. However, during the weekdays... to be honest, most of my steps come from pacing up and down my living room while reading. In the past few months I've read all of the Game of Thrones books, and many others. It makes me really look forward to the time I spend pacing around as it helps me to relax.
I think that when things got particularly suspenseful in a book, I was walking a bit more hurriedly in response, haha.0 -
I turn off my efficiency mode and make extra trips around the house when cleaning, doing laundry, etc. to supplement my steps on days when I'm coming up short.0
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Was thinking about this recently, too, because I love the park best, but that isn't always realistic due to weather, etc. I think I'm going to end up being one of the early-morning mall walkers soon. I do the park-far-away thing, too, as others have mentioned. And I always take stairs rather than lifts. At the park, if I don't get enough steps, I usually end up just circling around the path all over again. Thinking about getting a treadmill, especially with winter around the corner.0
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I went to the mall today with my daughter. We walked 9600 steps....Boom!!!! Tell the hubby you gotta go shopping.
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I have a Jawbone UP Move and have been working on increasing my step count over the last few months. I was able to consistently achieve 10K+ steps per day by getting up 45 min earlier in the morning to take my dog for a 30 min walk before getting ready for work, setting a reminder on my work laptop that prompts me to get up and walk around the floor every hour, scheduling a 30 min walk at lunchtime, and taking my dog out for another 20-30 min walk when I get home. On weekends I take my dog for a 2 mile walk in the AM and several shorter walks throughout the day. My dog is loving the increased outings and I'm starting to find it easier to go for walks as it becomes more and more of a habit. Tracking steps on my Jawbone has really helped.0
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Kalikel your phone is not accurate at all! 10,000 steps is around 5 miles!0
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kindyteacher wrote: »I just do little tricks and my husband thinks I am nuts lol. If I go to the kitchen to get a drink I walk around the island a few times. Or if I am watching tv during the commercials I get up and walk around the living room. Also, when putting away laundry I fold it downstairs and put 1 room away at a time. Each time coming back downstairs to get the next rooms stuff (bathroom, kids room, my room).
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Sounds like your phone is missing steps. You would need a stride length of 4'3" for that to be accurate.
While I don't think Mr_Knight gets 10,000 from a 5k (maybe 4-6k) it probably does take care of most of his 10,000 step goal.
I believe the average number of steps per mile is around 2k. It can be slightly more or less depending on stride length. Running strides are typically bigger so most likely less. The other day on a walk I was averaging 2132 steps per mile.
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I try and jog or run at least 2 to 4 miles everyday, and when my boots do hit the ground at work I usually always take the long way.0
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I do this in bad weather or if I'm antsy for whatever reason. Get yourself a good ebook, or just browse the Internet and your good to go.shadow2soul wrote: »*cough* I walk circles around my apartment *cough*0 -
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Sounds like your phone is missing steps. You would need a stride length of 4'3" for that to be accurate.
While I don't think Mr_Knight gets 10,000 from a 5k (maybe 4-6k) it probably does take care of most of his 10,000 step goal.
I believe the average number of steps per mile is around 2k. It can be slightly more or less depending on stride length. Running strides are typically bigger so most likely less. The other day on a walk I was averaging 2132 steps per mile.
This is the one area where I benefit from being short, I get more steps in my mile. :laugh: OP, I am a stay home mom which really doesn't add up to many steps, so I try to walk 3 miles every day to get to the 10K.
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One of these days, I'm going to actually count my steps for a mile and see how accurate these gizmos are.
I don't actually set step goals. I just do what I feel like doing and the steps fall where they may. But I wonder about the accuracy of these things.0 -
Try Nike apps like move and fuel they may help0
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Vacuuming my whole house is about 2,000 steps. If I throw in doing laundry simultaneously I can add another 1,000 steps.
On the weekend, if I wear my pedometer to the grocery store I will easily log another 2,000 steps by the time I'm done (woo! up to 5,000 and I haven't actually DONE anything I didn't absolutely need to do).
Picking up fallen sticks, weeds, generally tending my yard should net another 1,000. Double that if I work in the garden a little.
Up to 7,000 steps for the day and I haven't yet exercised.
Now for my secret weapon: I have a Labrador retriever and a springer spaniel. These dogs need a LOT of exercise. Most mornings another family member walks them. We II and the dogs) take a 1.5 mile trek on a nature trail (grassy, hilly) every single day in the late afternoon. At night we take a 1 mile walk. That's 5,500 steps (that I'm getting every weekday, too)>
Total: 12,500 steps
All without doing anything special. And to be honest, I love doing something a little different on weekends. Usually I take the dogs out to a state park or a nature trail and get a good, long hike of 3.5 - 4.5 miles in. That means most weekends I actually log more steps than weekdays, pushing between 13,000 - 18,000 on Saturday and Sunday.0 -
I am very sedentary, so if I didn't actively decide to go out and walk I wouldn't even reach 1500 steps in a day.
I listen to an audiobook (there are thousands on youtube) with my smartphone and I go out and walk. I average between 10k and 20k steps.0 -
At 100 - 120 steps per minute I try to walk for about an hour and a half daily, usually in 2 or 3 walks. If I go shopping that usually racks up about 4000.0
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I teach third grade and I have just over 10k when I leave the school at 4:15 each day so I average about 15k by the time I do my stuff at home. On weekends it is a little different, I am not as active. My washer/dryer are in the basement where my treadmill is so I make myself do 5 minutes every time I change over a load. I will also walk in place/march during commercials if I am far from my goal.
My weekend cleaning and grocery shopping also help me get my step count in. I park far away from the store so I have to walk. I even try not to be as "efficient" as I can be. I will make extra trips up and down the stairs just to get steps in .0
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