10,000 Step a Day, Part 4: Tracking and Adding Steps

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Tracking and Adding Steps

To get up to 10,000 steps per day takes time, and tracking, but you can do it.  Take that time and build on the foundation you've laid, for health.  

Tracking::

• Put your pedometer on when you get up in the morning and take it off when you go to bed at night to track each day's steps.
• Log your steps daily to monitor your progress.

Adding:

• Once you've completed the first two weeks walking with the pedometer just to see how many steps you normally take to find your baseline, it's time to set a new goal to challenge yourself.  For two more weeks set a goal of walking the same amount of steps each day that you walked on your highest step day from the previous two weeks.
• Keep adding about 500 steps to your daily total per two-week periods until you reach 10,000 per day.  For example, if you walked 1500 steps daily for two weeks, try bumping up the daily total to 2000 steps for the next two weeks, 2500 for the following two weeks, and so on.

Next Up....Ways to Add Steps