10,000 Steps A Day: Week 14

Tried some new things this week, I played badminton which isn't so new but I certainly haven't played in a while. It was really good fun and great exercise, I really felt it the day after. Something completely new is that I walked a completely new route to finish my steps. Its an area of town that I don't normally go to as I have no reason usually but it thought why not, and just started walking.

Nothing crazy happened, there were more children around than my usual route which wasn't great, and this was more of a residential area than an industrial one which again isn't great. One of the things I love most about it walking is just getting away from people and having time to think.

I remember when I first started walking I listened to audio books, it seemed great at first but then I listened to something a little boring for my liking and decided to stop. I don't even listen to music, I just think and daydream about things.

A dilemma I faced this week is when I played badminton. I clearly did over 10,000 during my hour of play but because of the weight of the phone and risks involved I didn't keep it in my pocket while playing. This meant I had to make up for about 5,000 steps at the end of the day when I was exhausted, I ended up pacing around my flat and going to the shop. Having to complete these steps can possibly hinder me when doing things that might make me exhausted. It wasn't too bad playing badminton but I can see going to the gym and possibly weight lifting having a much more noticeable affect.

Here's the results for this week -

Nothing special or crazy, I like how I can view at what times during the day I complete my steps. You'll notice generally a big spike, that's when I go for my walk each day.

Back

I'm back. It's only been about 7 years. My last post said hopefully it'll be a few weeks until I post again. A lot's happened since then. Too much to just put into a single post realistically. A lot of bad things, a lot of good things. I suppose that's just life. I'm currently going through a really bad sedentary period in my life after coming out of the pandemic and consistently finding myself working from home. I spend weeks at a time not going out. One of the most productive and healthy periods of my life was when I was walking 10,000 steps a day. This helped in many aspects of my life. I'm gaining weight and don't even want to know how much I currently weight. I figure this is a great time to start the 10,000 steps a day again. Last time I did it I liked to write a weekly report on the progress. I'm going to do this again but hopefully I might be encouraged to write more about my life on the posts. I've had a few hundred views on all of my p

10,000 Steps A Day: Week 23

I messed up... So on Wednesday I put my phone in a locker rather than carrying it with me whilst at work. There's some inspections for PCI and it's just better to keep it in a locker. I didn't take into account the steps I do whilst at work so I took my phone out of the locker and I actually went for a walk in the evening. This is more than I'd usually do in a day so I thought I'd crushed the 10k steps. When I took a glance at my phone I saw the icon to say that the amount had been reach. Unfortunately I did not realise that this was not the goal reached icon but the activity icon. They are the same after all so I don't blame myself too much for this mistake. This is the most amount of steps I've missed whilst doing this for the past 23 weeks and it is a bit crushing. As with the last couple of times it's not that bad considering I did in fact do the steps, it's just it was not recorded. There's 3 weeks left till the end of the 6 months and

10,000 Steps A Day: Week 22

Only four more weeks until I've reached the six month mark at which point I will be ending this. It's been very fun so far but with work and very soon college picking up, it will be too difficult to manage the 10,000 steps a day. Most recently I've found myself more and more walking around my flat to finish the last steps which I don't think is very genuine or natural. I don't really have a choice however because it's difficult to wind down and get to sleep if you have to go out and walk around town for a while before hand. This won't be the end of my blogging though, I'm thinking of starting to write about my weight, diet and exercise in more detail. I've been planning on joining a gym so I can exercise more vicariously in a shorter amount of time. I weighted myself for the first time in a few weeks and I'm actually pretty happy with the results. I haven't gained weight like I thought and I have actually lost a few pounds which is great.

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