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Be a Super Stepper

If you're logging fewer than 5,000 steps daily with your pedometer, you need to step up your efforts.

Walking 5,000 or fewer steps throughout the course of the day -- about 2 ½ miles -- is deemed sedentary behavior according to new activity guidelines. Most people log between 2,000 and 5,000 steps daily by performing everyday activities.

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Steve51

3 of 3 people found this helpful.

6/20/2008 2:32:35 PM

Put the pedometer in your pocket or on your sock. The hips tend to be at the center of gravity and sometimes pedometers won't read correctly.

steppy

4 of 4 people found this helpful.

6/19/2008 4:52:20 AM

Sometimes the pedometers can really psyche you out. There is nothing more discouraging than thinking you are registering mega steps and then look at your pedometer and it is registering only 100. When I do other exercises such as weightlifting, I take the pedometer off and use a table to convert that activity to steps. Vigorous weight lifting (90 seconds between reps) is worth 182 steps per minute. So my ten minutes of weightlifting this morning was the equivalent of walking 1820 steps. I have found the best place to wear the pedometer is at the waistline where the crease of slacks would be.

suzrulz

2 of 4 people found this helpful.

6/18/2008 7:14:36 PM

i have a quality pedometer which i place on my hip,then walk for ages
and it shows 50 steps.i have set properly,measured steps etc then look at it and it may show 7. battery new too

manx268

1 of 1 people found this helpful.

6/17/2008 12:06:29 AM

Everyday I will run a mile either on the road or using the cross trainer which I vary skip for 100 and 10 salutations which is 12 yoga stretches back to back the a few sit ups if I have time and it all takes me less than 30 minutes

kk39

5 of 5 people found this helpful.

6/16/2008 5:33:00 PM

I'm really frustrated with this "steps" thing. I must have long legs or something. I walk 4km or more daily, as well as whatever activity is going on in normal life. I have yet to reach 5,000 steps!

However, in the "words of wisdom" part of this post, I feel much better and stronger than I was. I incorporate walking in any activity. All the standards: park further away from the entrance, make time for a daily walk, use the stairs instead of the elevator. It may not be adding up as steps for me, but it is making me feel better, and that's an important thing

lhlady517

8 of 12 people found this helpful.

6/16/2008 7:44:15 AM

If over 12,500 is highly active, what would over 20,000 be?

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