Lol I compete with my brothers every week.one of them is a stay at home dad and walk all over the god damn place. Sometimes I get tired of getting my butt kicked. So I’ll swap wrists and play my guitar for a few hours
My dog sees to it; I walk her several times a day. We are about to go now for about half a mile or more. She adds to the exercise by trying to pull me very hard in (seemingly) random directions.
@phendrick I used to regularly take my dog on a 3 mile hike through the woods that finishes with about a mile stretch with ~500ft elevation gain. But now she’s pushing 15 y.o. and just not up to the long hikes so we’re limited to shorter jaunts. Breaks my heart (and hers too) when I sneak away for the longer walks without her.
@macromeh I’d be happy to take mine regularly for a 2 or 3 mile walk (might get me back in shape), but that would probably take an hour per mile – she spends more time stopping with her nose in the grass than she does walking. In the old neighborhood, I finally got where I limited her to one stop per yard we passed, then I would tow her (instead of the other way around). And I thought my old basset hound mix was dedicated to her nose, but this one (a three and a half year old lab mix) is at least as bad.
@chienfou I’d imagine you would. I cover about 3 - 3.5 miles doing 6-8 hours of laundry at the animal shelter, including a fair bit of walking back and forth from a big fan to cool off (deep south, no A/C in the dog warehouse where the laundry stuff is), and that includes a lot of sitting around. The catch I have is that would not be speed walking. In your case likely more of it is - along with far less sitting around.
I ride bicycle. Of course I don’t track them but when I had a poor quality tracker it didn’t detect most ‘steps’ when riding. I stopped using it after a 40 mile bike ride resulted in less than 3,000 ‘steps’ and I have never cared to track since then.
I’m an IT guy in the pharma industry. We’ve been a little busy lately. Also coach youth softball. My calves are in pretty good shape. If I need extra steps I typically just say the wrong thing to my wife and there I go.
I don’t track my steps, nor have a clue to how many I should have. I do take a 4 mile walk every day, and I think the last time we had a “steps” question, I looked it it up, did the calculation, and that wasn’t nearly enough per per the interwebs.
Under desk pedals on top of an active 4yo and dog that both need to be walked daily. So happy for first spring to be here and it to warm up a bit before second winter rolls in a for bit.
Lol I compete with my brothers every week.one of them is a stay at home dad and walk all over the god damn place. Sometimes I get tired of getting my butt kicked. So I’ll swap wrists and play my guitar for a few hours
That’s a good 30,000 steps there
My dog sees to it; I walk her several times a day. We are about to go now for about half a mile or more. She adds to the exercise by trying to pull me very hard in (seemingly) random directions.
@phendrick you could use your dog like in this Geico commercial.
@phendrick I used to regularly take my dog on a 3 mile hike through the woods that finishes with about a mile stretch with ~500ft elevation gain. But now she’s pushing 15 y.o. and just not up to the long hikes so we’re limited to shorter jaunts. Breaks my heart (and hers too) when I sneak away for the longer walks without her.
@macromeh I’d be happy to take mine regularly for a 2 or 3 mile walk (might get me back in shape), but that would probably take an hour per mile – she spends more time stopping with her nose in the grass than she does walking. In the old neighborhood, I finally got where I limited her to one stop per yard we passed, then I would tow her (instead of the other way around). And I thought my old basset hound mix was dedicated to her nose, but this one (a three and a half year old lab mix) is at least as bad.
I walk between 12 and 26 kilometers at work every night. That’s good enough for me.
@AuntMean67 Yeah, for sure!
amazing how much you ground you can cover in a 50 foot long hallway with 5 ER rooms off of it…
@chienfou I’d imagine you would. I cover about 3 - 3.5 miles doing 6-8 hours of laundry at the animal shelter, including a fair bit of walking back and forth from a big fan to cool off (deep south, no A/C in the dog warehouse where the laundry stuff is), and that includes a lot of sitting around. The catch I have is that would not be speed walking. In your case likely more of it is - along with far less sitting around.
@Kidsandliz
Totally varies from one day to the next!
I walk home from the brewery so I don’t get a DUI 4.5 miles
I ride bicycle. Of course I don’t track them but when I had a poor quality tracker it didn’t detect most ‘steps’ when riding. I stopped using it after a 40 mile bike ride resulted in less than 3,000 ‘steps’ and I have never cared to track since then.
@yakkoTDI New trackers use GPS to map your route. You should try it sometime, and I promise I will too.
I have a house with stairs, and three children under the age of five.
I’m an IT guy in the pharma industry. We’ve been a little busy lately. Also coach youth softball. My calves are in pretty good shape.
If I need extra steps I typically just say the wrong thing to my wife and there I go. 
I don’t track my steps, nor have a clue to how many I should have. I do take a 4 mile walk every day, and I think the last time we had a “steps” question, I looked it it up, did the calculation, and that wasn’t nearly enough per per the interwebs.
Under desk pedals on top of an active 4yo and dog that both need to be walked daily. So happy for first spring to be here and it to warm up a bit before second winter rolls in a for bit.
I work 10 hour days at Amazon, I usually get 13+ miles a day
walk my dog.
If anyone says Candy Crush, want to combine for one of those team goals w/in the app?