Logging steps per day?

piraterodgers
piraterodgers Posts: 2 Member
edited November 29 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm using a step counter and I don't get a calories burned or time duration ... just the number of steps per day. How can I log this into MFP exercise? I tried creating an exercise but the factors it asks for (calories burned, duration) are irrelevant. I'm not particularly interested in those items; at this point, I'd just like to log in steps per day. Can this be done?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    You can't, unless it's an activity tracker that can sync to MFP. I'd just create a spreadsheet to keep track of the steps.
  • MarvelGrrl
    MarvelGrrl Posts: 622 Member
    You wouldn't log it as exercise. It's a part of your daily activity level. Depending on how active you are you can adjust that here on MFP and it will suggest a baseline for calorie consumption. For example the daily carlorie allowance for a sedentary person and an active person with the same goals would be different. You could note your daily steps in the note section of your diary here, but creating a spreadsheet would be a fun way to track and see how active you're being :smile:
  • MomOnTheMoove
    MomOnTheMoove Posts: 8 Member
    edited January 2016
    An average person has a stride length of approximately 2.1 to 2.5 feet. That means that it takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile; and 10,000 steps would be almost 5 miles. Based on these numbers you can determine how far you walked. I don't know how you would account for duration except to guess-timate. You could also use the MapMyWalk app (which will sync with MyFitnessPal) and create a workout. I hope this helps!
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    You can't, unless it's an activity tracker that can sync to MFP. I'd just create a spreadsheet to keep track of the steps.

    This^

    You could add it to exercise "notes," but the spreadsheet idea is a good one.

    Adding all steps to exercise will invariably result in double counting. Even sedentary activity level includes (at least) a few thousand steps.
  • piraterodgers
    piraterodgers Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you, all, for your replies. I did discover the Note section, so I've been just jotting my steps there.
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