[Nfbmo] National Fitness Challenge NFCMO

[Daniel Garcia]

Well, this is how I get my high step counts.

First of all, I have an ankle band purchased from Amazon.com that has a little pouch to put the fitbit. This gives me a more accurate count of my steps. When I was wearing the wristband, I constantly had to keep my arm down to get steps. Also, I could not hold my phone and get steps at the same time.

A typical work week is like this.

I get up and put on my ankle band. After breakfast, I can walk for about half an hour before I get picked up to go to work. By the time I leave home on a good day I have roughly 3500 steps. On a good day, I get to work about 40 minutes before I start taking calls. This gives me 30 minutes to walk around work, about 3000 more steps. I have 3 15 minute breaks, about 1200 steps each break. I have a 30 minute lunch break. I eat in about 15 minutes and then get in another 1200 steps. During the last 15 minutes of our shift, we can get off the phone to do desk work or whatever else we need to do, another 1000 steps. I usually leave work with about 10k to 12k steps.

I will sometimes get about 1500 to 2000 steps while waiting for my ride back home. While preparing dinner and after dinner I can get more steps, especially during conference calls. 

Weekends are harder to describe in detail. I do get about 3000 just by going grocery shopping. I try to walk as much as possible around the neighborhood. This has helped me practice my cane travel skills which have become a bit rusty lately.

Regards

Daniel Garcia


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Subject: [Nfbmot] National Fitness Challenge NFCMO

Like those of you who have already posted, I had a wonderful time on Sunday
by helping the Delta Gamma Foundation in what I understand to be their
largest fundraiser of the year. On days when you do a walk like this, it is
easy to meet a step goal such as the one I have, which happens to be 10,000
steps a day. Now I see that my goal, no matter how hard I find to make it
some days, is far surpassed by many in our group. The question I would like
to explore is how you do it? I have a job that lets me work at home, so I
have a lot more freedom to take the time I need for exercise and other
things, but most of my job really requires that I sit at a computer, read
mail, and respond to it, and write , write, write. Sometimes I try to be
creative and read materials I am reviewing on a portable device, but there
is only so much I can do to keep on moving. How do those of you who work in
more structured environments managed to get the number of steps you get? Are
you walking in place as I sometimes do? Are you walking outside, as I
sometimes do? Do you pace around parts of your office space, as I sometimes
do?

 

I'd love suggestions for how to get my step count up without seeing a
commensurate reduction in my salary. I welcome and encourage your thoughts.
Please respond on list, even if you think my 10,000 step count is rather
wimpy.

 

 

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