Fall In Love With Walking
Walking is fun, especially if you do it with a friend. And it’s cardiovascular in nature, so starting a walking program during the month of August is perfect because any month would be great.
Don’t underestimate the power of walking. Adding some extra walking minutes to your day can have a positive impact on your health and fitness goals, and your step count.
Fall in love with walking
The best way to track your steps per day
Invest in a simple pedometer or phone app to help you to keep track.
There are lots of fancy gadgets but I suggest finding something that you can clip to clothing, wear or keep in a pocket so that every step counts.
Lots of wearable gadgets have indicators that monitor your daily walking steps.
In fact, many mobile apps and bracelets even congratulate you when you have reached your goal for the day.
Add more walking to your day
100-1,000 steps, change simple habits such as parking further from the store, getting off the bus one stop sooner, taking the stairs, avoiding escalators, and moving walkways or a brisk 5-minute coffee-break walk to help you to accumulate this number of steps.
1,000-5,000 steps, to reach this number of steps you will need to start adding walking on the spot while you are on the phone and a 20-minute coffee-break walk. Make a conscious effort to get up from your desk a few times a day and walk for 5 minutes and get active around your home.
5,000-10,000 steps, aim to use stairs as an exercise by taking them 5-6 times, walking 5km, taking a 40-minute dog walk, and taking two 20-minute coffee-break walks.
This is a significant number of steps because anything less than 5,000 means you’re quite inactive (according to ASCM guidelines, less than 5,000 steps daily is sedentary). Reaching 10,000 steps every day will help you feel like you’re really exercising.