How do you get in 10k steps per day?

[Anonymous]

I've added walking a 3-mile loop for lunch but it's only 5k steps. I don't know when I can get in more steps because I don't want to walk at night (family dinner, kids, a volunteer commitment.) Do I just walk up and down my stairs? Or should I get a treadmill?

[Anonymous]

10K steps = 4.5 miles. I do that during lunch break, take about an hour and 15 minutes.

[Anonymous]

I don't.

I walk at a brisk pace, hills, about 5 days per week for 45 minutes on average. I have long legs and long strides and it registers as about 4,000-5,000 steps (for just this walk) most days. Some days it's shorter, some days longer.

This is good for me.

I am 40 though, and need to introduce strength training for my upper body (hills are great for legs/butt/core).

[Anonymous]

I take a shorter walk at lunch and then a longer walk when I get home (or finish if sworking from home). I start my work day at 6 so I have to befor I start making dinner.

[Anonymous]

This is part of the reason I go into my office. One day last week I walked 4.5 miles inside the office just by taking random breaks and walking around.

[Anonymous]

There are some days I walk an hour before work, an hour on my lunch hour, and an hour after work and still don’t hit 10k. But at that point I just spent three hours walking and am pretty sure I’m getting plenty of health benefits.

[Anonymous]

Are you working at home or in the office? Tell us more about the evening activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've added walking a 3-mile loop for lunch but it's only 5k steps. I don't know when I can get in more steps because I don't want to walk at night (family dinner, kids, a volunteer commitment.) Do I just walk up and down my stairs? Or should I get a treadmill?

Dod you measure your stride correctly?
I’m 5’9” and a daily mile and a half is 4k ish.
3 miles should put you in the ballpark of 7-9k steps depending on stride length.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is part of the reason I go into my office. One day last week I walked 4.5 miles inside the office just by taking random breaks and walking around.

Maybe do not mention this to your manager...

[Anonymous]

Lunch walk + treadmill in the evening

[Anonymous]

I have a dog and don’t have a yard.

[Anonymous]

I work a desk job. I find that if i wear my Fitbit all day, i get in 10k steps with an hour or so walk plus doing whatever i normally do in a day.

[Anonymous]

I don't, that said I work out every day either with weights or pilates/barre. That to me is more important than reaching that phantom 10K steps a day goal. I have a desk job and do my best to stand and walk around during conference calls, but it's not always practical. I do the best I can!

[Anonymous]

I walk for 45 minutes most days, and that gets me to, or near, 10k (maybe around 8k). I walk around the house to make up the difference.

If it's 11:55 p.m. and I need 123 steps to hit 10K, then I walk up all the stairs in my house and boom, I get my confetti shower. I'm so close to 10k, I am getting my confetti shower. Then I go the bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is part of the reason I go into my office. One day last week I walked 4.5 miles inside the office just by taking random breaks and walking around.

Maybe do not mention this to your manager...

I don't have a "manager." And nobody should feel bad about getting up from their desk. Its healthy and you shouldn't be sitting all day anyhow, for a whole variety of different reasons.