It's the end of the year (almost) and I've really gotten into this step goal thing finally. I've had my Garmin vivosmart HR+ since my birthday in 2017, before my husband deployed. I thought it might be a way for us to be connected over the miles (since he already had a Garmin), but I mostly just used it as a watch. For a year. Or more. As I was preparing for my trip taking middle school kids to NYC, I started walking after school with the kids (so that they wouldn't complain in NYC about all the walking) and would pay attention when I hit 10,000 steps for the day, but I didn't work for it. When I was in NYC, I hit my all-time high step count with 24,000 or 26,000 in two days. And then summer came and all the routine went out the window.
As I've mentioned before, in November I started with ClassFit and started working out again. Then I started running using my Activ 5K app, and paying attention to the steps I was taking. I realized that I was getting close to 10k steps on weekdays, and falling way short of steps on weekends (think 2-3k at most). I made a goal to get 10k on weekdays and stretch for 7500 on weekends. In November, I was mostly successful with this. Some days I would walk laps while out at bus duty (that is, I would not stand still while waiting for buses to arrive) in order to get my 10,000 steps. Then I made a decision that I would make sure that I would get 10,000 steps before leaving the work building.
And then I accidentally got a whole week in a row. It started with a week where I got 5 days in a row, and on Saturday I didn't have very many steps by the time the kids were in bed (2500, maybe), and I felt really lazy. I decided that I could listen to a podcast on my phone and walk around inside to maybe get steps to 7500. I remembered that there was a podcast recently released with the ClassFit founder, so I listened to that and walked. And walked. And walked. And when I was done, I had 8800 steps. And I realized that with a little bit of effort, I could make it to 10,000 for the day, so I loaded up some other podcast and walked until my watch celebrated my step goal. The next day, Sunday, I don't remember exactly what we had going on that day, but I ended up really close, so I made a little extra effort and sealed the deal: seven days in a row.
The rest has been...a little bit of an obsession/addiction. We've been out of school since December 20, but I have made a real effort to get those steps in every day. I've never made the effort before. (I mean, I've gone to bed and seen that I was 50 steps short of 10k and seriously just gone to sleep.) My streak started on December 3 and we've gone 27 days in a row. Here's what it has looked like in my MFP app. The days with over 15,000 steps have been Irish Dance Class days. There has been no dance class over the holiday break, though, so we've pretty much flat-lined, barely made it to 10k since school was out.
As I've mentioned before, in November I started with ClassFit and started working out again. Then I started running using my Activ 5K app, and paying attention to the steps I was taking. I realized that I was getting close to 10k steps on weekdays, and falling way short of steps on weekends (think 2-3k at most). I made a goal to get 10k on weekdays and stretch for 7500 on weekends. In November, I was mostly successful with this. Some days I would walk laps while out at bus duty (that is, I would not stand still while waiting for buses to arrive) in order to get my 10,000 steps. Then I made a decision that I would make sure that I would get 10,000 steps before leaving the work building.
And then I accidentally got a whole week in a row. It started with a week where I got 5 days in a row, and on Saturday I didn't have very many steps by the time the kids were in bed (2500, maybe), and I felt really lazy. I decided that I could listen to a podcast on my phone and walk around inside to maybe get steps to 7500. I remembered that there was a podcast recently released with the ClassFit founder, so I listened to that and walked. And walked. And walked. And when I was done, I had 8800 steps. And I realized that with a little bit of effort, I could make it to 10,000 for the day, so I loaded up some other podcast and walked until my watch celebrated my step goal. The next day, Sunday, I don't remember exactly what we had going on that day, but I ended up really close, so I made a little extra effort and sealed the deal: seven days in a row.
The rest has been...a little bit of an obsession/addiction. We've been out of school since December 20, but I have made a real effort to get those steps in every day. I've never made the effort before. (I mean, I've gone to bed and seen that I was 50 steps short of 10k and seriously just gone to sleep.) My streak started on December 3 and we've gone 27 days in a row. Here's what it has looked like in my MFP app. The days with over 15,000 steps have been Irish Dance Class days. There has been no dance class over the holiday break, though, so we've pretty much flat-lined, barely made it to 10k since school was out.
Somehow I happened upon a Facebook group called "I do it 10,000 times a day" where people track their step goals and offer encouragement, and there are people on there who made it a 365-day goal. It seems like an incredible, impossible goal, but at the same time, I'm 27 days into it, so maybe that's something I can do, too? There are also people on that group who have 1,000+ days of steps, and by that time, it's a lifestyle, right?
So, that's my step update...for now.
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