Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts
Monday, 2 March 2009
Break Step
On day 4 I got so brassed off with the reset button on the pedometer constantly resetting my step count that I ripped off the button. After this, about half a day later the pedometer missed so many step counts that I gave up on the cheap, promotional piece of junk. I'm still going to carry on the walking though. Hiked out to Zavvi's today and picked up a pile of CD's in their "everything must go" closing down sale.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Steps
No not the terrible popular singing group!
I've entered the Get Active challenge at work, to get up to walking at least 10,000 steps every day.
Every entrant who signs up is issued with a small, cheapo LCD pedometer (badly designed as the Reset button is a great big thing on the front, so you keep accidentally resetting it as you wear the thing).
You then measure the number of steps that you take each day, with a view to building up the number that you take on average to be 10,000.
According to the blurb that we were given most people take 3 to 5000 steps a day.
On day 1 (Monday) I got the pedometer around 10am and by the time I went to bed around midnight I'd done 4,900 steps.
On day 2 I went for a walk at lunctime to buy fruit, and buy the end of the day had notched up around 10,300 steps.
Today I went shopping at lunchtime. Checking the pedometer now I've done 9,300 steps.
So going for at least half an hour walk every day, and using the stairs rather than the lift seems to be the key. I'm feeling a bit fitter too.
I've entered the Get Active challenge at work, to get up to walking at least 10,000 steps every day.
Every entrant who signs up is issued with a small, cheapo LCD pedometer (badly designed as the Reset button is a great big thing on the front, so you keep accidentally resetting it as you wear the thing).
You then measure the number of steps that you take each day, with a view to building up the number that you take on average to be 10,000.
According to the blurb that we were given most people take 3 to 5000 steps a day.
On day 1 (Monday) I got the pedometer around 10am and by the time I went to bed around midnight I'd done 4,900 steps.
On day 2 I went for a walk at lunctime to buy fruit, and buy the end of the day had notched up around 10,300 steps.
Today I went shopping at lunchtime. Checking the pedometer now I've done 9,300 steps.
So going for at least half an hour walk every day, and using the stairs rather than the lift seems to be the key. I'm feeling a bit fitter too.
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