6000 steps a day

[dbgun]

Don't know about how many steps, but I'm walking 4 time a week at a local park. Timewise, it's 65-68 minutes, so about 3-1/4 to about 3-1/2 miles. My daughter bought a real nice tread mill, that I use when the weather is bad, so no more excuses, lol.

 

[Brains]

How do you make your phone do it?

On iPhone, open the Health app.

 

[Prisondoc210]

How do you make your phone do it?

I have Fitbit with software that keeps track of your steps.

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[joking]

Avarage 10-11k/day for me.

 

[candcallen]

Samsung phones have the samsung health app

There are various free apps as well.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Does going from computer to the refrigerator steps count?

 

[DoubleDuty]

Does going from computer to the refrigerator steps count?

Only if it's to get water

 

[no2gates]

How do you make your phone do it?

If you have an Android phone, there's an app that's probably already installed called "Fit"

 

[candcallen]

Got 7500 in today.

God I hurt.

 

[candcallen]

My tracker says I walked 21 miles since last saturday. Just regular activity. Probably 3 more today. Not bad for a cripple who cant walk more than 20 minutes at a time.

 

[vmax]

Who’s got time to count steps, much less worry about them?

This is a fitness thread.
Counting steps is a simple way of maintaining your energy balance and activity level.
Alot of people use watches like Fitbit or apple watches to track steps

6000 is bare minimum for me
I usually like to be between 8-10K

 

[toddnjoyce]

This is a fitness thread….

I’ve never been a counter, always a doer which is a large reason why endurance sports worked well for me.

 

[candcallen]

The last week from yesterday.

The calories is in addition to the 1800 to 2200 or so you burn a day just by being alive.

Steps....Day...miles...calories burned.

8200 Monday 3.95 miles 412 calories
5370 Sunday 2.56 miles 269 calories
5961 Saturday 2.89 miles 297 calories
5877 Friday 2.83 miles 294 calories
6213 Thursday 3.02 Miles 311 calories
4599 Wednesday 2.22 miles 230 calories
6658 Tuesdat 3.3 miles 335 calories.

Week totals
42878 steps. 20.77 miles. 2148 calories

I could be doing much worse. I'll be laid up a couple days from the surgery but probably start my mile walks again before friday.

All my steps over the 1.25 mile walks is just walking around the house, doing house work etc.

As crippled as I am needing pain meds daily and still getting in what I do in very short windows of time, anyone can do it.

Burning an extra 3500 calories over your intake will burn about a lbs of fat. Limiting intake to 1800 calories a day and burning an extra 2000 calories a week will lose you 2 lbs a month.

Add some very light resistant exercises to build a little muscle will increase the daily calories used because muscle will burn more calories a day plus the exercise, calories burned, to build it wont show in in a simple step tracker but might show in some fit bits or smart watches that monitor heart rate and other activity.

It all pays off. My fasting blood sugar at the hospital was 78 this morning. That was with me off all but one of my meds. Before it was 130 to 150 with 4 different diabetic medications. It was almost 300 a couple years ago with no meds.

So go take a walk. Lift 5 or 10 pound weights. Do 2 or 3 hundred pushups leaning against the wall then transition to leaning against the counter then on your knees on the floor then regular pushups


You all can do it!

Boy I ramble when high on drugs dont I. Lol

 

[vmax]

I’ve never been a counter, always a doer which is a large reason why endurance sports worked well for me.

Different people..it takes all of us to make the world interesting

 

[easy rider]

I have a steps tracker on my phone. Since we have four labs and three classrooms, I do plenty of walking. I average between 10,000 to 14,000 steps a day at work. Day's off? Not so much.

 

[vmax]

The calories you burn according to the fitness trackers are almost always way over what you actually burn
They all.over estimate

 

[robertc1024]

The calories you burn according to the fitness trackers are almost always way over what you actually burn
They all.over estimate

I'm in complete agreement with that. As I said earlier, I keep track of my steps mostly for deductions on insurance premiums. What would be a lot more telling is heart rate monitoring. Walking around with your pulse rate never getting over 100, wouldn't do you nearly as much good as 15 minutes of moderate activity.

 

[easy rider]

The calories you burn according to the fitness trackers are almost always way over what you actually burn
They all.over estimate

I'm one of those lucky ones that don't really have to worry about calories so much. Being that I'm not married I don't mainly have to follow an eating timetable, my body tells me when I need to intake calories, hence I have a food drawer in my desk at work.

 

[vmax]

I'm one of those lucky ones that don't really have to worry about calories so much. Being that I'm not married I don't mainly have to follow an eating timetable, my body tells me when I need to intake calories, hence I have a food drawer in my desk at work.

I've met you and you don't have a problem with over eating!

 

[FNORD]

150 to 500 a day. Small ones.

With crutches.