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10,000 Steps and Counting: My Fitness Book Is Not Interactive Enough. . .

I want to note here that the idea to average your steps, increase your daily average by 2,000 and then increase by 500 thereafter was not my original idea. Have you read the book The Step Diet? It is a great book explaining the power of walking to help lose weight. But again, weight loss is only a side effect of my real goal: to get back into shape. However, I now have a problem with my wonderful book. It’s not interactive enough. I have been religiously wearing my pedometer for awhile now. I have been very good about increasing … Continue reading →

10,000 Steps and Counting: Those 2,000 Extra Steps

Checklist Before You Can Read This Blog: Did you buy your pedometer? Did you keep track of everything that you ate and all the steps that you took? Did you average the number of steps you take per day in a typical week? If you answered ‘yes’, you can keep reading! I hinted in last week’s blog that we were going to talk about increasing our average steps by 2,000. That’s your goal this week. Take your average from last week and increase it by 2,000 steps per day. When I first contemplated the idea of increasing the number of … Continue reading →

10,000 Steps and Counting: My New Best Friend the Pedometer

Recently Heather Long has bombarded me with a slew of articles telling me to get back into shape after the birth of my twins. Well, okay, she probably wasn’t writing just for me. But oh, how I needed to be inspired. So I bought a pedometer to start tracking my steps. I am now four weeks into my journey with my pedometer and I love her. I may name her. Since her arrival in my life, I have lost weight, but more importantly–I feel better. Are you looking for some type of fitness to do but aren’t sure what? Buy … Continue reading →

10,000 Words & 10,000 Steps – A New Definition of Physical Education

I was reading about a new educational program being put into practice at a few schools on the West Coast and I think it’s a great idea. I already plan to write to my local school district and suggest it as an idea that could be implemented at our schools here. The program is referred to as 10,000 words; 10,000 steps. So what is 10,000 Words & 10,000 Steps? You may have heard of the 10,000 step program that encourages you to increase the number of steps that you take every day until you are walking on average of 10,000 … Continue reading →

10,000 Steps May Not Be All That

Do you know what the 10,000 step program is? We’ve talked about it here. The 10,000 step program encourages participants to increase their number of daily steps to 10,000 in order to improve their health, reduce weight and increase their fitness. This is a great idea because the average person only takes about 2,000 steps per day. 2,000 steps is about 1 mile. So if you are increasing your steps to 10,000 you are achieving about 5 miles per day in your walking. So What’s The Problem? Recent studies indicate that when we depend only on the pedometer for the … Continue reading →

Pedometer Practice

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Pedometers are the ideal exercise companions. They encourage you to go that extra mile. They nudge you to take more steps each day. They whisper ‘just a little bit further’ into your ear and they send you looking for the steps instead of the elevator. In fact, I know people who have lost weight and gotten fit with their pedometer than with all other diet and fitness plans together. Inside a pedometer is a small pendulum type device. This device is what lets the pedometer count your steps. The pedometer I have, for example, is a small device that attaches … Continue reading →