In the past week I managed to get 6 out of 7 days of more than 10,000 steps.
Weekends are not too difficult, I walk the natural area behind the apartments, depending on the loops I do I can get 3-7 thousand steps done in an hour. Weekdays I have to do 3 5-10 minutes walks during the workday and for lunch walk a half mile each way. That usually leaves me with needing 5-6,000 steps after work. That's doable by changing into walking shoes, grabbing several cigars for smoking as I walk and purposely striding along. Cigars are necessary as that forces me to look ahead rather than down at my feet as I walk. This challenges me a lot since the trails are covered in roots, branches and leaves and you have to react to balance problems by proprioception rather than visual sight. Soon this will become even more difficult as I will be doing this in the dark. This is an incentive to get in more exercise since in the process of getting socially connected here in Michigan I joined lots of Meetup groups, with lots of dinner and drinking get togethers. As a result I'm 35 pounds over what I should weigh. At 10 o'clock I check to see if I need to make a 500 step loop around the apartments or even more. A PT would tell me my walking does not look good and is inefficient. I'll correct that whenever the hell I get my spasticity stopped
Saturday October 18
Sunday October 19
Monday October 20, not a good day, I spent 8 hours at work solving another coworkers problem and had a 2 hour wine class immediately after work. Not enough time to get in 10,000 steps and I didn't feel like even trying.
Tuesday October 21
Wednesday October 22
Thursday October 23
Friday October 24
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