Walking Challenge

One of my goals this month is to try to be up more. Up just means not sitting (duh), but I do want to also get up to the daily recommended number of steps to maintain health and weight (10,000). You can't really know how many steps you are taking without a pedometer, so I bought one. I researched different options and settled on this one. It was relatively inexpensive, but had great reviews. 

I've actually had the pedometer for two months now and it's great. I do find that it records most accurately when worn on the lanyard around your neck. While I've had it for some time, I haven't really stuck to any schedule for improving my daily step totals. So I've developed this walking challenge for February that ties into my health goals. Each day (excluding rest days) I up the steps goal by 500 steps. I know it doesn't seem like very much, but once you hit your typical number of steps upping it each day is a lot of work! The rest days are thrown in there because it's tiresome to be constantly trying to keep track. I would recommend still tracking your steps and maybe just trying to solidify whatever progress you've made. 

Let me know if you use my walking challenge! It would be great to have some step counting buddies : )