What Do You Do For Exercise?

[MossRoad]

Glad to see some people know they need to get there heart up a bit and for a while. You'll live longer or at least better. Feeling tired is not what does it.

Wife and I always try to walk at a pace where we're breathing hard enough that it's difficult to hold a conversation. Unless, of course, we want to talk, then we slow down.

 

[ArlyA]

Yep. My wife gets about 1200 steps on her fitbit while sitting in the car on our 13 hour drives to Oklahoma.

I'd guess you get even more "steps" mowing the lawn on your tractor per hour, than riding in a car.

 

[MossRoad]

I'd guess you get even more "steps" mowing the lawn on your tractor per hour, than riding in a car.

I'd imagine so if I used a fitbit, but I don't use a fitbit. I use an iPhone in my pocket. It doesn't get bounced around as much as a fitbit on one's wrist.

Kinda funny that wife and I will go on a walk, and she'll get significantly more steps than me. Now I do have a longer stride, so I'd expect to get less steps than her. However, we walk together, and it tell us she walked farther than I did. No way. We were side-by-side.

I believe my iPhone uses GPS only to figure distances and then divides that by the number of steps to get my stride length and updates itself fairly often. However, it's a common concern that iPhone UNDERESTIMATES the number of steps. So that can be another factor why her step count it much higher than mine, besides my longer stride length. (although underestimating is better for you, so I'm not concerned).

However, I think the fitbit needs to be calibrated to stride length manually once in a while. Where you measure off a distance, count the number of steps, and divide steps per distance to get stride length. Then you have to enter that in your fitbit program. If you don't do that, it will estimate you stride length based on age and height, as I recall.

Anyhow, wife is much 'fitter' than I am. She rides an elliptical trainer twice a day for half an hour each time at its highest setting. I can do about 5 minutes before I want to barf!

 

[Dftodd]

Yep. My wife gets about 1200 steps on her fitbit while sitting in the car on our 13 hour drives to Oklahoma.

I figured it was counting arm movements since it's on your wrist.

I verified that was actually the case while sitting at a stop light

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I got 3200 steps in working in the garden this morning.

 

[Big Barn]

I figured it was counting arm movements since it's on your wrist.

I verified that was actually the case while sitting at a stop light

and just what arm movements were you performing while sitting at the stop light

 

[dodge man]

I think I have figured out my phone counts steps when I’m mowing my yard on the tractor but not many in the car or when riding my bike.

 

[GeneV]

and just what arm movements were you performing while sitting at the stop light

Hey now!

 

[Dftodd]

and just what arm movements were you performing while sitting at the stop light

 

[Jim Shooz]

I generally walk for an hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays and ride my Ebike on Wednesdays and Sundays. Don't know how many steps or distance on the walking but the bike has over 11000Ks on it. (bought new, no throttle) I think that's enough for an 85 year old.