If there's another active thread like this please do let me know but I didn't see one so figured I'd start one- my first thread on here actually!
So I brought a pedometer and my aim is to get up to an average of 10,000 steps a day. This is recommended by the NHS to improve your cardiovascular health. For weight loss they recommend 12,000 to 15,000 steps a day but I'm figuring I'll worry about that once I've hit the 10,000 first!
Here's the article which is well worth a read I reckon http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweigh...challenge.aspx
I've seen lots of different ways of doing this but the way that I'm going to do it is:
Take a base line week. So just do your normal activities/walking etc and record it for a week. My pedometer records a weeks worth so that's handy.
Then take an average for that week and each week try to increase your average by 2000 steps till eventually you're at 10,000 steps a day.
Personally I want to do this by working it into my daily routine so being more active becomes a habit and normal rather than say pacing back and forth for 2000 extra steps a day! But however you want to do it is up to you!
This is my 4th day so I don't have my steps for today yet but so far:
Baseline week
Day 1: 5070
Day 2: 3558
Day 3: 2301
As you can see they vary quite a bit! Yesterday I did a lot of travelling hence why it's so much lower. Today I've done alot of walking (and also remembered to put it on while I was just wandering about in my PJS this morning which I've kept forgetting) so I imagine will be higher than day 1 even.