1.14.2010

10,000....



steps-a-day.

For good health, balance, lifestyle, etc.

1,000 steps is approximately 1/2 mile.

So, all you math people out there, you've already figured that means ten thousand steps is approx. five miles. (Only five miles?????)

And, walking at a moderate pace, the ten thousand steps burn about 500 calories (500 calories????? Tell me that is a joke!)

The most steps I've ever walked in a day was in Washington, DC with Dave and Deon Ballard. They wouldn't stop; they were determined to see everything there was to see, and RAH and I tagged along. Boy, were my feet tired that night because on that day we walked over seventeen thousand steps. For good health, I should hang out with them more often!





But, MOST days, I don't come near to ten thousand steps.

I'd like to. I'll keep trying.

But, that's a lot of stepping!

3 comments:

Lauralee said...

Last year Kathy convinced me to become a Mall Walker and I did well for the first month only. Twice around the mall was one mile and by the end I thought about giving up my will to live. I got that notion out of my head quickly.

Once the weather turns nice again and the rain stops and I win the lottery I might try again to make it to 10,000 steps a day.

Janessa said...

You're a step ahead of me! You count them!

Nat said...

I think the calories burned/steps taken ratio thing is a joke too! When I am on my treadmill, and it tells me how many calories I have burned, I sometimes just want to give up. But we just have to keep going!

It's so HARD....

 for me to go to church and be filled with the spirit and come home and see something that my kids or grandkids have posted on social media....