[where's_the_Outrage?]

I really like the step counting function on my smartwatch, recommend everyone get one. I’m currently at 123 straight weeks of at least 6000 steps, which is over 2 years every day. My current goal is 143 straight weeks, or 1001 days in row of at least 6000 steps.

[LouAvul]

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[SamAdams76]

Most people don't even need any special equipment. My iPhone has a built-in Health App that records every step I take (including flights of stairs climbed). I can see daily results as well as averages for weekly, monthly, 6m, and 1 year.

What I like about this app is that if I go walking in the woods up and down hills, the app counts the uphills as stairs. It is not unusual to come back from a hike with 20+ flights of stairs credited to me.

I'm pretty sure the Android phones have something similar.

My goal is to maintain 10,000/day average.

As I age, I realize how important this is, as many people my age who are sedentary end up having health problems and a lot of joint pain. It really is true when they say "use it or lose it."

It's not as hard as you might think to get 10,000 steps in (about 5 miles). Dedicated one hour a day for walking. That alone should be 6,000 steps. Then spend the rest of the day taking extra steps when you can. Such as parking in the far corner of the supermarket and then walking around the entire perimeter of the supermarkets a few times. You will end up with 10,000 steps easily.