During the month of May 2017 I completed an average of 9,667 steps per day or 7.55 kilometers. This performance is ranked #2 since I started using the pedometer on my phone back in 2014. #1 is September 2014 when I completed an average of 10,256 steps, ~600 more than now.
But this is not me. I don't do a lot of walking on average. My exercise of choice is resistance training.
In fact I'm almost always under 5,000 steps/day and more often than not even under 3,000. I'm not proud of this though; but I'm just saying for reference.
Here I'll underline some insights that came along with this involuntary experiment:
- the pedometer shows ~347 kcals/day burned with this exercise (may be very inaccurate)
- I had to consume more calories to maintain weight
- sleep was stellar
- bowel movements were much more epic
- I became very introspective during the walks (I suspect higher parietal lobe activation)
- and a few more, less interesting.
Overall, I had to somehow take the good out of this experiment and try to at least implement some form of it more often. An involuntary form of cardiovascular exercise, such as walking, seems to be very beneficial for me. The thought of running or treadmill exercise sounds very unappealing though (I was a runner a few years ago, but I slowly moved away from that).
I've written a more indepth post about this on my other blog if you're interested to know more. Anyhow, I'd like to know if you're using a pedometer on your phone or watch and if you do, what have you learned from tracking your steps?!
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