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10,000 steps a day

sgha
sgha Posts: 225
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I bought a pedometer and am taking 10,ooo steps a day. This includes walking throughout the day, and walking/hiking as exercise. My problem is..I know how to track the walking/hiking for exercise, but if I count my steps throughout the day and don't do any specific exercise, but still take 10,000 steps, I don't know how to track them in exercise/cals. burned. "They" say 2,000 steps equals a mile. Any suggestions on tracking? (does this make any sense?)

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  • newarkco05
    newarkco05 Posts: 240
    You can put the walking as exercise into the exercise log under how many mph it was. However, the rest of the steps I would not log. When you signed up for MFP, you needed to give your activity level a day which includes your daily steps just from working, walking around your house etc. There is also a spot on the exercise log for hiking. So, in short, I would only log the exercise above and beyond your usual daily steps.
  • sgha
    sgha Posts: 225
    Thanks, Newark. I guess the steps taken just throughout the day will be bonus cals. burned.
  • oklanoue
    oklanoue Posts: 33
    I actually went in on MFP and set up an "excersice" "steps taking at work over 8 hours"...put 480 min in and then change the calories burned daily...I use an application on my phone (droid) called "noom walk" and it keeps track of the steps/cal burned and distance....

    I set this one up just so I could monitor becasue I don't do a lot of other excersice right now so I want to keep track of everything I do do...LOL
  • SadFaerie
    SadFaerie Posts: 243 Member
    If you want accurate measurement, you should use a heart rate monitor. Counting steps isn't very helpful for counting calories burnt as it doesn't tell anything about the HR zone you're in. Check this out: http://www.thewalkingsite.com/thr.html and happy walking!
  • grassette
    grassette Posts: 976 Member
    I use my pedometer for walks, and enter those cals, and distance walked. But the rest of the day, I simply monitor my activity. The 10,000 steps is what you need simply to stay healthy, and less than that shows that you are being too sedentary. Monitoring yourself for sedentary habits with a view to breaking them is what a pedometer is so useful in doing. It creates that awareness that you need to make changes, and the extent to which you need to change.
  • lawtechie
    lawtechie Posts: 708 Member
    "They" say 2,000 steps equals a mile. Any suggestions on tracking? (does this make any sense?)

    What is your stride that you entered in the pedometer? If the pedometer doesn't calculate distance for you, then use your stride to calculate. Mine for example: My stride (each step) is 23 inches. There are 63,360 inches in a mile. So it takes me ~2,755 steps to walk a mile.

    When you go out for your "exercise" walk, note what step count you're starting at and subtract that from your ending to get the steps done during walking and figure out mileage. As for logging on MFP, I stop every once in awhile to get my heart rate. It's not perfect but close enough for me.
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