Rest days: 10,000 steps?

I still get 10K steps on my rest days, but I do not do any "intentional" exercise on rest days. I try to abut 16K most days. To get that , I need to either spend some time on the treadmill or do an exercise video. On rest days I get my 10K steps but do not do anything else. It helps that my rest day is usually Wed. because I do close to 10K steps before I leave work.

Yes I still get 10k steps on rest days. I get 14ish k steps on a workout day.

My rest days, when I'm exercising, I usually hit 10k, but that's because I have an active job so it's almost a given that I will. I just don't do anything that's continuous/strenuous.

I have no rest days. Today was one and I got over 23,000 steps. I have an active job and I even on a day off I have a very active 16 month old and well...Christmas shopping and running errands and cleaning my house like a mad woman. I only sit down to drive and pee.

My rest days are days I don't run. (4 days a week.)

I still do my average of about 17,000 steps, but occasionally it's as low as 14,000.

toe1226 wrote: »

I will confess rest days are rare for me. Lately I've been hitting between 15,000-25,000 steps per day (including a workout somewhere in there).

Feeling a little ragged lately.

Wondering, do you guys still make sure to get 10,000 steps in on your "rest day"?

What does rest day mean to you?

Recovery is important if you are working out. I don't know what kind of workouts you do but I can give an example of what I do.

I power walk every day so those steps count towards my daily steps. I also have a Polar V800 which keeps track of my recovery status and the intensity of my power walks, because I wear a chest strap heart rate monitor when I do my walks. On days I do very intense walks it adjusts the recovery status by adding the intensity to the existing recovery status, so it keeps a constant state of what my current recovery status is. When it goes into strained, it tells me that, and tells me when I can do my next intense workout.

This does not mean I cant workout, it just means I need recovery time before doing another intense workout. At that point I do what is called a recovery workout. I can do the same walks but with much less intensity (HR zone 1/2), and this will actually aid in recovery and preparation for the next intense workout.

So what ever you are doing, if you feel drained, chances are you need to recover. So you can still get your steps in and do your workouts with less intensity until you feel recovered.

Hope this helps.

Rest days I don't even bother looking at my step count.I do what I do.Ive lost 44lbs since June so it's working for me but each to their own.

How do you get so many steps? I walk everywhere and work out about an hour a day (not counted in my steps) and only get 3000-8000(max) steps!

starwhisperer6 wrote: »

I am the Queen of rest days, I work two jobs except on Sundays and Mondays I'm off, and I'm pretty sure my fitbit thinks I'm dead on those days.

I think my garmin fells the same way

I have an active job too so rest days I don't do intentional exercise but still get steps in. If it is a workday rest day then I will be over 10k. If it is a weekend rest day and I don't go out shopping or anything it can be super low at 2k-4k. I have been sick the past few weeks so even at work i've been moving less and have been 8k-9k by the time I go home. (my step goal is 13,500)

Yes, I usually get 10,000+ steps on rest days, as I walk that much on a normal day without intentional exercise and if it's a lower-than-normal activity day I will usually add in extra walking to or from work. I think rest days can still be active, I just don't do any training-type stuff on them.

This is a very timely post as I am having a very rare "lazy day" today and was just pondering whether or not I should still aim for 10k steps. I usually average 14-17k steps, it's 2pm here and I just looked and I'm at about 4,000. It's cold and rainy, we are putting up decorations and watching football, and I think for the first time I'm not going to purposely try to get the flex to vibrate when I hit 10k. If I do I do, but other times like this I will go for a walk or do laps in the basement to get over 10k, today I think I won't...

The pattern I've fallen into is averaging about 10-11k per day (I have a desk job), but the actual numbers typically pan out with 5 days quite a bit above that number and 2 a decent amount below it, and that is working well for me. The low days generally involve yoga and other low-intensity activity; the higher days reflect my running, Zumba, etc. I rarely spend an entire day just sitting on my butt, but it does happen, and those days are important to me for both physical and psychological well-being. Since I like to work a weekly deficit rather than daily, it all tends to come out in the wash, even if I eat up to sedentary maintenance on those truly lazy days.

If you're feeling 'ragged' thats your body telling you that a proper rest is needed, listen to that and rest up, you'll feel much more energised when you do

Today may be my laziest of lazy days!

223 steps today, according to my phone.

I've stayed in my PJs, inside all day. I don't carry my phone with me. I possibly actually walked/moved around 1-2k, tops.
I cooked,cleaned, worked on presents, watched movies and relaxed. Ive felt like I may be catching something, scratchy throat & tired so I took a day off. And thoroughly enjoyed a full rest day.

I'll get back at it tomorrow.
To your question: no, I don't always get to 10k steps, on rest days or even other days sometimes.