anyone find success with 10k steps a day?

brb_2013 wrote: »

My steps are usually just a result of living my life, not exercise. So my doctor advised me not to think of 10k steps of daily activities as "exercise", so I personally think unless your steps include at least 30 total minutes of a nicely elevated heart rate you'll perhaps see slow results. That's been my experience. I'm starting 3-4 days of actual exercise per week now and seeing if that helps move things along.

I agree with this, when I first got my Fitbit, I didn't change my lifestyle at all for the first few days, I wanted to get an idea of what my normal daily living provided in terms of a step count. I was averaging close to 10,000 steps a day, so I adjusted my goal upward. My Fitbit also tracks the number of "active minutes" so I kind of use that as a guide, for example, yesterday I had 155 active minutes and I consider that to be my exercise time. So while I walked 21,878 steps yesterday, I am only really counting about 14,000 of those as exercise because that's the number of steps I took during my active minutes.