How far was that?
We just finished our company “Step Fitness Challenge”. The individual goal was to average 10,000 steps a day for 50 days, our department goal was to walk to Brazil or something like that which was 8,000 average daily steps. Every department met its goal and 29 individuals made it too.
At 522,574 total steps I was one of the lowest of those 29. One person had 955,674! Some went precisley off of the pedometer, I went more for a fitness value approach. So yeah I may have only taken 3,000 actual steps during that hour of basketball, but the fitness value was worth way more than walking for an hour or walking 3,000 steps. I ended up reling on the online step conversion charts quite a bit.
It was a lot of fun and provided that little extra push to make sure I got my exercise in each week.
Somewhere along the way our vocabulary changed too. How far is it to walk J to school? 1,100 steps round trip. To the bathroom from my office? Right on 100 round trip. The breakroom is at least 200 steps round trip, depending of course on how long you pace pensively in front of the never changing array of frozen entrees.
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