To all the health/fitness junkies on our forum: how many steps per day do you walk on average?

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As the title of this topic suggest, how many steps do you walk per day? Feel free to share a screenshot of your health app or activity tracker below :point_down:

I will share mine first… (the screenshots were taken from Samsung Health, with steps counted on both my phones and my fitness tracker)

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I normally set out my goal of walking at least 5,000 steps a day, but as the screenshot above shows, it seems that I have missed my target :cry: (one downsize of having an office job I guess).

I did walk the most on Oct 6, when I was traveling in Huế, Vietnam on my day off and walked around the old Citadel.

  • Do you wear a fitness tracker or a smartwatch to track your steps and exercises?
  • What was the most awesome activity (aside from walking) that you have ever tracked?
  • Do you have a tip for someone like me (with an office job where I sit most of the day) to increase my step counts and be generally fitter?
  • And lastly, have you ever cheated to increase your step counts? :eyes:
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Steps , Really. What would one achieve ? Nothing

The only thing that can help is : RESISTANCE TRAINING.

  • Do you wear a fitness tracker or a smartwatch to track your steps and exercises? NO
  • Do you have a tip for someone like me (with an office job where I sit most of the day) to increase my step counts and be generally fitter? Focus on Weight Training
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I am mostly taking steps from the desk to the kitchen to grab a coffee, after work from the couch to the fridge to grab a beer.
More than enough! I feel sooo tired after such effort …

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I second this. I almost never get more than a couple thousand steps a day, but I do get after it in the gym. Unless it’s release week for us (like right now), where I’m working until 3 am most nights :smiley:

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On average, my Test Cases have ~20 steps. So with 157 Test Cases that’s…

Oh. Wait. You meant walking :roll_eyes:

:rofl:

Uh… 100? :blush:

But wait… three flights of stairs to get to a functioning bathroom? :scream: Maaan, this house needs work…

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Well, since I am not generally active to begin with, and my lifestyle is a bit sedentary, so I view the act of accumulating steps counts throughout the day as a form of exercising in itself ( and also a bit of a boost to my self-esteem haha :face_with_peeking_eye: )

Though I have to ask: what are the main differences between Resistance and Weight training?

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But would you feel tired walking from your work room to the kitchen to prepare a delicious meal though? :eyes:

Since you have claimed to be quite a night owl in the other thread, I am guessing that this would not take that much of a toll on you? :thinking:

… orrr, it could be a great exercising opportunity :smirk:

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the kitchen is downstairs, so is ok.
gravity helps.
the problem is, after the meal to go upstairs, three levels, to the bedroom.
so i ussualy collapse on the livingroom couch, which is same level with the kitchen