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Where do your steps come from?

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    Where do your steps come from?

    Whether you wear a tracker/pedometer or not, can you identify parts of your daily routine that either get you moving, or could be tweaked to get you moving more?

    I just got 500 steps while folding one small load of laundry, LOL. I danced to Shakira while folding, and made two separate trips up the stairs while putting away.
    Alison
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    Taking my children out anywhere, and allowing the 4 year old "walking privileges". 😄


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    • #3
      Upstairs bedrooms mean I'm constantly going up/down the stairs for diaper changes/naptimes/clothes changes all.day.long. It's annoying, but I know I'm getting lots of extra steps out of it.

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      • #4
        Walking to work and the post office. Even with that, it's only around 5000-6000 a day. I need to upgrade to a Fitbit that gives me credit for stairs.

        House has five different levels, three floors, two significantly sunken rooms. Built in to a hillside. Obviously we have to move if we get very old in this house. We call it the Escher House.

        I don't even think we could have lived here with toddlers. So many stairs.


        Angie
        Angie
        Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
        Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

        "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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        • #5
          My mom says she has a retired friend who intentionally bought a house with stairs so she'd have a nice butt in her old age.
          Alison

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          • #6
            Picking oldest up from school = 3000 steps.


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            • #7
              Cleaning the living room (including several trips to and from the playroom to dump off piles of stray toys) = 1500 steps.
              Alison

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              • #8
                I'm always shocked by the number of steps I get while talking on the phone, haha.


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                • #9
                  I don't have a consistent "get steps in" routine.
                  Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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                  • #10
                    It has to be laundry and putting away all the single, lost socks for four kids.
                    -Ladybug

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Vanquisher View Post
                      I don't have a consistent "get steps in" routine.
                      That's kinda why the thread. I'm not always *doing* anything to get steps in, but I can rack up a bunch without even leaving the house. Where do they COME from?? Apparently, 500 of them can come from cleaning the laundry room. Who knew?
                      Alison

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