How many steps do you walk / aim for?

[NalPolishRemover]

I'm 52 & have decided that 2022 is the year I get fit so i have been tracking steps & walking for an hour 3 times a week for the past couple of weeks.

I have a relatively sedentary lifestyle as I work in an office but used to walk at lunchtime when I was in work

I'm working from home a lot now so less walking incorporated into the day (walk in g to meetings / lunch etc) I averaged 5k steps without actually trying iykwim

Today I have walked 11,000 steps & some uncounted ones around the house, up & down stairs etc without the tracker.

I went on a local walk at lunch time & walked 6.36km lots of it was hilly & it really tired me out.

It got me wondering - do you walk more or less each day?

On an average day, around 10,000 but to be honest I'd rather run/cycle/row at the gym than just count steps so the steps I do are in addition to the exercise I do IYSWIM.

I'm isolating at the moment so only did 3,500 yesterday and no exercise - I'm climbing the walls! However today is cleaning day so I'll probably hit 10,000 as I'm up and down the stairs with the hoover!

Upto October I was averaging about 10000 a day and then more on weekends because I was out waking early in the mornings but the weather changed and I got lazy

Work full time in sedentary job so getting steps up can be hard.

No school runs anymore either.

I've just this week started early waking again so am building it back up and have a track my walk app and a garmin monitor.

Just done my third morning in a row and each one I've done ten mins more at a time.

Just to say if people can't leave the house for various reasons, there are lots of "walking" videos on YouTube. Low impact or can increase the intensity if you want.
Leslie Sansone is good, also Improved Health.

@emmathedilemma

11,000 steps without leaving the house? You must live in a big house! I tend to go off levels of exercise rather than steps - if i swim, gym or bike then I don't worry so much about hitting 10,000 steps a day.

I misread that at first too, but I think that by "Today I have walked 11,000 steps & some uncounted ones around the house, up & down stairs etc without the tracker." she means "Today I have walked 11,000 steps out of the house with my tracker on. I have also walked some uncounted ones around the house, up & down stairs etc without the tracker."

10K a day is my target. I usually get that. Some days it’s more but for me, 10K is realistic.