We’ve been encouraging you to forget all the confusing, complicated, and conflicting fitness advice and to focus on these 5 habits to make a big impact on your health:
1️⃣ Strength train 3-4x per week
2️⃣ Increase daily movement
3️⃣ Improve sleep quality and duration
4️⃣ Increase our daily water, fruits, and vegetable intake
5️⃣ Prioritize protein at every meal
Today, we’re chatting increasing your daily movement
Most of us struggle to get enough daily movement for various reasons:
- We move less as we get older (even if we don’t know it)
- More work from home
- Convenience items such as online banking, paying at the pump
- Online shopping and grocery deliveries
- Streaming services are more popular and more accessible than ever
- The list goes on, so encouraging more daily movement is a great start!
Most of us have heard tips such as parking further away, taking the stairs more etc. While these tips help, sometimes it’s nice to have a way to quantify how much daily movement you are getting.
Entering the Chat: Step Counters ⌚️
FitBits, Apple watches, and Garmin are some examples of easy ways to track your daily steps. Most default to a goal of 10,000 steps a day, but that’s unattainable for many of us. 10,000 is also an arbitrary number used as a clever marketing strategy.
Most people average only 3000-4000 steps per day. So setting a goal to reach even 6000 steps per day is a great start! Here are two important things to consider with your step goal:
1️⃣ The average person takes 1200-1500 steps per kilometer
2️⃣ Most health benefits plateau around 6000-7000 steps per day
So by adding 1 or 2 short walks to your daily routine, you will increase your daily movement and in turn, improve your health. Walking is also great because you can do it:
- Solo
- With family and/or friends
- In silence
- With an audiobook, podcast, or music
- Get some sun and fresh air
Increasing your steps and daily movement is also a great weight loss strategy. But this is a whole different topic which we’ll dive deeper in a separate blog post.
So with that being said, ask yourself, how can you make time to add 1 or 2 short walks into your daily routine?
Need help with getting more daily movement? Book a ‘no sweat’ intro with us today to learn more about how we can help you work towards your goals!
