I think for the last 3 years I’ve got no more than 1500 steps a day. I sit a lot at work. At the gym (3-4 days a week) have not been walking on the treadmill either.
I read of 10k steps a day being the goal for anyone.
I think for the last 3 years I’ve got no more than 1500 steps a day. I sit a lot at work. At the gym (3-4 days a week) have not been walking on the treadmill either.
I read of 10k steps a day being the goal for anyone.
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that is not good. it’s recommended you get like 8k. you need to get up and move around more
I work an 8-10 hour day and still target getting 13k a day. You can do it if you take two long walks a day
Taking years off your life and life off your years. Just go for an hour walk after work to start.
Its empirically bad, get up and walk, get those 8k plus steps
One of the things that’s not often talked about is how so many people have bad posture because of our average day of life in our society.
I talk to a lot of message therapist and most of their clients have problems because they sit at work.
I’ve lost 65 pounds at 5 foot 5, but stretching/massage and taking up hobbies where I had to be active made even a bigger difference.
If you are inactive and sit a lot for work and home, chances are you will have issues with your shoulders/neck/back/knees/feet when you age. Also because of people’s inactivity a lot of people will be more prone of significant injury because their muscles in their bodies are tight/overworked and weak, a simple fall can cause a significant injury.
When I was very bad overweight my body had various health and physical issues. I repriortize my life and easily the best decision I made. I had health issues men in their 70s get at age 27. Now I feel like I’m in my mid 20s (I’m 33), I look like it too.
A lot of companies profit off of people not being active because they consume content. A lot of people are a lot worse than they realize and it takes so much work to get back to healthy shape, which is why it’s difficult. Start with small steps and go from there
I get about 10K a day because I walk a lot. I once sat next to a 97 year old lady on a plane once, and she looked like she was in her 70s. Her secret was that she walked 3 miles a day.
Depending on what method you are using to keep track, it could just be terribly inaccurate.
Based solely on my phone, I’ve only been averaging about 8k a week for the last couple months, which seems low to me. But at the same time I know I’m not getting 8-10 a day, that doesn’t even seem possible these days.
Def not great. Aim for 5000 for a few months, then 7000 until you get to around 8 to 10000. You’ll thank yourself someday. May i also recommended drinking at least a 1/2 gallon of water a day!
Get a walking pad. They are affordable and you can put it anywhere in your house. Easy to move around too. You can put it at a desk or in front of a TV. I’m like you, I have a job where I only take about 3,000 steps before I get home. An hour on it gets you to 12,000 +. It’s a game changer for steps.
Edit: I have 2 young kids and can’t leave the house for a long walk after dinner. Can’t walk right when I get home either. So it’s a game changer for being house bound and time bound.
As someone with experience it’s destroying your life.
I was the person who walked 10k steps a day. I’d climb the stairs in my 17-story building rather than use the elevator. I ran multiple races for charity where we’d run up the stairs of a famous skyscraper, 90+ stories.
In comes Covid and I became a hermit.
I’m wfh, so I barely left the house. I averaged 3k steps in 2020. Had my 1st ER visit around Thanksgiving.
2021 I moved and started to become active again, but that lasted 2 months. For the next year I averaged 3k steps.
July 2022 I noticed a change in my gait but put it off until the next year. August 2022 and October 2022, two more ER Visits.
April 2023 my doc informs me that my body was basically eating itself, atrophy.
They sent me to do PR which lasted 3 months until I had to move again.
From August 2023 to Sept 2024 I averaged 1500 steps.
Nov 2023, I was diagnosed with heart failure.
September 2024 to present but ignoring my 2 vacations, I averaged 1k steps and never left the house.
April 2025
I’m on so many medications, it hurts to even walk and I’ve been trying to force myself to walk every other day but it feels like my legs are going to blow up.
So yeah, the past 5 years wiped out decades of health. I was 33 in 2020. Too young to get these issues, but here we are.
Start walking, you won’t regret it.
How is that possible…. I get 1500 steps in just back and forth from the bathroom