Anonymous wrote:Why are you trying to hit 10,000? That number has been debunked as a health goal.

8,000 is the minimum but 10k is better.

"Particularly, a recent meta-analysis showed decreasing mortality risks with an increasing number of daily steps until 6000 to 8000 steps are reached for adults older than 60 years and at 8000 to 10 000 steps per day for those younger than 60 years."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802810#:~:text=Particularly%2C%20a%20recent%20meta%2Danalysis,those%20younger%20than%2060%20years.

Anonymous wrote:If you have a desk job, how do you get in 10k steps/day?

Get up every hour and walk a circuit and then walk 2 miles after dinner.

Anonymous wrote:Why are you trying to hit 10,000? That number has been debunked as a health goal.

Every 1,000 steps you walk above 4,000 per day reduces the risk of dying early by 15%. It’s really important. Humans are not designed to be sedentary.

Run 4-5 miles in the morning. That’s the only way I get it in.

Anonymous wrote:Why are you trying to hit 10,000? That number has been debunked as a health goal.

The specific number isn’t important but ensuring you are moving a lot during the day is and tracking a number is more intentional than just guessing. People wildly overestimate how much they actually moved if they don’t have a tracker to show them the reality. 10k or 15k or 8k isn’t what matters but a pattern of lots of movement throughout the day is.

Why are you trying to hit 10,000? That number has been debunked as a health goal.

I park 1.25 miles from my office, then Zumba after work.

By taking Metro and walks during lunch.

Anonymous wrote:I putz around my house a lot and take a walk right after work most days. It’s actually quite easy if you’re intentional about it. You can get a lot of steps in just putzing!

Putz.

I walk to work, I walk to pick up my kid from school, I walk to and from the gym.. With that despite sitting on my behind most of the day my daily steps are about 12-15k and often more than that.

Dog walk in the early am and at night—often two miles each time. Run at lunch. That’s an ideal day, but sometimes the dog doesn’t want to do even one mile and I run errands and barely make 10k.

I stopped running for a couple years and replaced it with walking the same distance. I thought that was fine, but my fitness level really suffered. Also, it is SO much faster to get your steps in while running.

Get up in the morning and do a one hour / 3 mile walk

Intentionally build walking into your day. Park in the FURTHEST parking spot at a store or your job, not the closest. Walk around for short bursts

Go on a 30-45 minute walk when you get home

It all adds up. I am a teacher and with this I can get 12-18,000 steps a day, and not many of those are actually taken AT school (maybe 3-4K total) because while I am on my feet all day, the space to move in a classroom is tight so you can’t actually “walk” as much as you might think.

Walk the dog 3 x a day = 7,000 steps
walk from car to office and back again - up tp 8400
finish the day off at 10K with all the running around I do in the house, kids places etc.

Weekends I normally do 20K

I have a small folding treadmill that I walk on for an hour twice a day and I go for a 20 minute walk during my lunch.

I set a timer that I have to stand up every 30 mins

And I run or walk every day.