1-Stair Climbing
2-Doing your own yard work
3-Brisk Walking
4-Dancing
5-Wash your car
Accumulate 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity over the course of most days of the week. It is important that someone new to any form of physical activity build their program gradually so they don’t get disappointed and the can maintain it for the long run. I would just tell them what the surgeon General recommends, after they get used to physical activity then I would start implementing more specific workouts to fit their goals and wants.
Below the student reflects on his expedition where he was asked to wear a pedometer for 2 weeks and track his experience and steps on WalkerTracker.com
(1) Was it hard to keep track of your daily step count – were there days you forgot to log in?
Well it wasn’t hard keeping track of my daily step counts it was just hard remembering to log in, I made a book were I keep my steps and I write them down every night before I go to bed. I just forget to log in and post them online. Yeah I almost always forgot to log in but I did and I posted all my progress.
(2) Out of the 14 days, how many days in total did you reach 10,000 steps a day?
Out of the 14 days I only reached 10,000 steps 4 times.
(3) Do you think obtaining 10K steps a day is a reasonable activity? Do you think most people can attain this goal? If so, why aren’t people simply walking more?
Obtaining 10,000 steps a day is reasonable it’s just hard. I don’t think most people can obtain this goal, the only reason I obtained it was because ether I ran or played football with my friends.
My pedometer experience was great, I loved wearing the pedometer and people asking me hey why are you wearing that and me telling them is a project for my fitness class. I think that just by me wearing the pedometer and my friends looking at me wearing it and asking me question I helped them get a little motivated in physical activity. Now my sister and her boyfriend wear one to, they ask me all the time if I reached 10,000 steps because they haven’t done it once yet. This was just a class assignment but I’m going to continue wearing my pedometer, not only for my self but so people can ask me why are you wearing that and I can tell them to stay in shape just by walking.
Below is the student's public service announcement about increasing your daily physical activity:
(PSA post to come)
3 comments:
This project was interesting about using a pedometer to keep track of your steps. And never thought washing my car would be considered a physical activity.
-Tory
this is an interesting project, just by adding a simple little step counter into your daily activities you started to see how hard it really is for most people to obtain healthy living. We know that it's not the easiest thing to add physical activity into a sedentary persons life, but a pedometer seems like a simple and effective way to motivate and help stay on track.
-Kiley
I think the Surgeon General's recommendation of at least 30 minutes a day is easy enough to accomplish, but some people may not want to do anything about it. Wearing a pedometer could really get people to start thinking about how much physical activity they are doing, especially if you wore one everywhere you go.
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