I have sat at my desk for four years. Between four years of creating and grading college classes (and three of those years spent helping to run a cheerleading program) I have been on my trusty desktop computer a whole heck of a lot.
Since Mac has graduated, I have had more time, and this past fall I spent the time coming up with even more college class activities. But in the spring, I finally decided to use the time I have to get my rear-end out of this chair and start really moving.
Besides a walk most nights, I had not done much of anything since grad school and it showed. A few months ago I really started moving again and it feels so, so, so much better.
After noticing on July 3rd how many steps I had gotten in just the first two days of the month, I decided to set a goal of a half million steps in July. It worked out to be 16,129 a day. I knew this would be the only month of the year I would have the time to do it, so I figured I'd give it a try.
I made a table to keep track, since I am a geek like that, and then I walked. I did good-old fashion aerobic videos in the morning, tried to make my way around the house as much as I could throughout the day, went on a long walk with Sean after dinner and then the kicker was when I mentioned my 500,000 plan to a neighbor and she wanted to do it too. She and I have spent most nights walking the loop of our cul-de-sac over and over for at least a couple miles.
All of this meant I hit my goal four days before the end of the month. And I didn't stop today, my Fitbit step-count for today is 19,479.
I won't be able to keep walking this much in August, but I will make sure to keep getting to at least 10,000 steps. However, if you want to get 500,000 steps next month here is a PDF table 500000 steps (assuming you share my geekiness).
