How many Steps to you do a day on your fitness tracker

Last 7 days average: 3720 steps daily. It's higher in better weather, but maybe only 5000-6000 unless I do an intentional walk. I try to only do enough steps-based activity to stay conditioned to it. I have crummy knees, don't like to try to drive steps upward routinely because I'm likely to have more discomfort as a result.

I use it to track exercise pace, distance, and heart rate, among other things - whatever factors it will track that are relevant to particular activity I'm doing. (I don't swim enough to care about swimming stats, which tends to require a specialized device; I do use my watch in conjunction with a chest belt heart rate monitor for rowing, because the wrist-based monitor loses contact too often because of arm flexion, and gives me inaccurate data. The chest belt remedies that problem. I don't wear it all day, every day, just when doing activities where it's needful.) I mostly care about rowing (on water and machine), with some casual interest in biking and walking (i.e., intentional walks).

Mine theoretically tracks sleep, but routinely is inaccurate, so I ignore it. It regularly thinks I'm asleep (usually thinks REM sleep), for example, if I lay in bed in the AM and catch up on email/texts on my phone, or something like that. It also fails to identify wake-ups during the night (frequent for me) unless I actually move around a good bit when I wake up. (Usually I just look at my watch/clock and go right back to sleep, barely moving at all.) I've had the opportunity to compare its results to an in-hospital overnight sleep study, where I was all wired up to every possible kind of monitor. The fitness tracker showed something quite differently from the higher-tech monitoring, to say the least.

I also pay attention to resting heart rate, because that gives me feedback on my cardiovascular fitness: Gradually creeping upward over a long time is a hint that I'm not getting enough CV activity, or - on the flip side - that I'm overdoing higher-intensity exercise. A single unusual day is no big deal: For example, I'll usually see a little jump in resting heart rate the next day after noticeably exceeding my maintenance calories, but that fades away pretty fast. I use HR during exercise to limit highly intense exercise to frequencies/durations that are helpful to fitness, but not excessively fatiguing.

I like my device a lot, but I think it's useful to understand a little about how they do what they do. Some people seem to think the outputs are gospel truth, when they're typically approximations/estimates, better in some cases than others.

5000 every other day

This isn't this week. I haven't been wearing it for a couple weeks but I took this ss for a friend about a month ago. It's a fairly typical week since the gym has been closed and I am not working (I work on my feet so I have more when I work)

I just use a step tracker on my phone. My goal is >15000. My highest is around 28k.

I aim for 10,000; but I don't always hit it. I have a desk job and homeschool my kid in the evenings and cook/clean, all that fun stuff.

Most days I get it, but, sometimes my timing just doesn't work out. I probably miss it once every couple weeks.

Most of my steps are taken literally jogging around my dining room table while helping my kid with her math.

For me it varies day to day, but this is an overview of the past month:


My step count comes from:
- laps around my living room, while watching TV or being on my phone (something I started doing at the start of Covid-19, working from home full-time since then and missing my commute walks)
- running on the treadmill
- outdoor walks occasionally, which explains that 28k spike you see on the graph (15km walk on top of indoor laps)

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