How do you get 10,000 steps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6 miles? I’m 5’4” and 10000 steps is 4 miles according to my tracker.

Same. I am 5'6 but have short legs.

But for me, it generally included running for a portion of it. Then add in several small dog walks, consciously parking at the far end of the parking lot, etc. I stopped running in favor of an elliptical warm-up (just 20 minutes) plus weight training for my daily workout.

Meant to say that I no longer get 10,000 steps but I am okay with that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

[Anonymous]

Get up early for a long walk then a shorter post work walk
I find it a struggle every day
Keeps my weight down without causing hunger though so I suck it up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

We all make our choices. I’d never pick golf over actual movement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

Sounds like you have plenty of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

Sounds like you have plenty of time.

In addition to a full-time job, nope.

Besides, why would I what’s the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

We all make our choices. I’d never pick golf over actual movement.

Golf takes talent and it’s social .

But yeah, enjoy your hour and a half of walking every day. 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

Sounds like you have plenty of time.

In addition to a full-time job, nope.

Besides, why would I what’s the point?

I wonder why you are posting in a thread about getting 10K steps if you are not interested and supposedly have no time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

We all make our choices. I’d never pick golf over actual movement.

Golf takes talent and it’s social .

But yeah, enjoy your hour and a half of walking every day. 😂

Weird flex on a thread about . . . walking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under-desk treadmill changed my life! I love it so much, and I never sit at work any more. I now easily get at least 10k steps/day and some days up to 20k-30k. I walk slowly but consistently throughout the day.

Are you on it all the time or do you ever sit? Considering...

On it all the time--I walk at 1.5-1.8 throughout the day. Never sit (don't have a chair). If I'm in a meeting where it's awkward to be walking, I just stop the treadmill. In some of my meetings, it's fine to walk slowly with the camera on (some of my colleagues have treadmills, too!). In other meetings, where I'm mostly listening, I'll turn off the camera and walk at a higher speed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

I mean... none of this is actually exercise. Yoga is great stretching, but it (along with gold and pickleball) don't cause people to move their bodies much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

Sounds like you have plenty of time.

Right? This sounds like a stay at home mom or wife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted this before, but it takes me about 10 minutes to briskly walk 1000 steps. I take my step goal and break it up into 3-4 segments throughout the day and set a time to hit them. Like 2500 by 9:30, 5000 by 1:00, 7500 by 5, and 10K by bed. It also has the benefit of making sure I can get up from desk: I am one of the people who could sit down and not move for 10 hours. This has caused tremendous issues for my back. Forcing to get up periodically has really helped my back too.

So you walk 1 hour and 40 minutes every day... briskly.

Yes, likely. Sometimes less because I run or go to an exercise class instead. It sounds like a lot but imagine if you walked for 10 minutes instead surfing the internet . . .

I don’t have 10 min 10x a day. Like now I’m waiting at a dr office I guess I could walk in circles in the waiting room.

I do pickleball 2hours 2x a week, yoga 2x a week and golf 1x a week (when it’s nice) … I walk 2-3x a week 5 miles which isn’t 10K steps

So I literally never get 10K a day. I don’t track Pb.

I mean... none of this is actually exercise. Yoga is great stretching, but it (along with gold and pickleball) don't cause people to move their bodies much.

Speak for yourself.
Golf: constantly on your feet, walking, bending, twisting, and swinging your arms.
Pickleball: not as intense as tennis but still repetitively swinging arms, bending, moving forward and back, lunging.
I'd hardly call either a stationary activity. And even if it isn't cardio, yoga is/can be full body workout and builds muscle and tone, not just stretching.
But please enlighten us with your definition of "exercise."

[Anonymous]

Walk the kids to school, take the stairs and park further away at work, walk for 10-15min during my lunch break. Add in a trip to the grocery store and that’s getting pretty close to 10k. On days I actually go for a run it gets up to 15.

[Anonymous]

Whoever is up there playing golf and taking 5 mile walks and not getting 10k steps has a broken step counter. Walking a round of golf alone should get you close to 10k. And 5 miles is over 10k unless you have an abnormally long stride