[Nfbmo] National Fitness Challenge NFCMO

[Cheryl Meister]

Excellent! Those are very good strategies and I really appreciate you sharing them with all of us!
Thank you

Cheryl L. Meister
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> On May 9, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Gene Coulter via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> First of all I will start off by confessing that I truly have an unfair advantage over most folks in the fitness challenge as I am retired and have lots of time to walk and walk some more. For the life of me I cannot figure out how Robin House averages well over 20,000 steps working full time at one job and part time at another!   I am humbled by her performance!
> some of the things I do include walking around the block for about 1,500 steps, walking back and forth while listening to a book or sports, and walking in place while watching TV.
> It may sound silly but one thing that can build a lot of steps is to do things  without being efficient. For example if I am making a sandwich I will walk to the refrigeerator and get the cheese and take it to the table then walk back and get the lunchmeat out and then get out the mustard and reverse the process once the sandwich is made. Depending how far away your table is from the  refrigerator it is amazing how many steps this can add. On days I am short on steps I will eat that sandwich while walking. One day when I was home alone I brought in the mail one item at a time from the curb - 10 items added well over 500 steps.
> A year ago I was happy with 8,000 steps now I am crushed if I do not meet my new goal. One thing that has helped is having a friendly competition with someone else in the group, for me it has been Robin. So, I suggest picking out someone close but ahead of you in the standings and  challenging yourself to beat them and even cheer and taunt them. As you climb  the ladder pick out someone new to have fun with.
> Finally a strategy I used was to make myself go just one more step then I did the day before even if it meant staying up a couple minutes later.
> I do not know if this all sounds silly but just thought I would share as more than anything I want to see everyone doing fantastic in the challenge!
> Gene
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> Subject: [Nfbmo] National Fitness Challenge NFCMO
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> 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?
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> 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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