Using a Pedometer

Did you know that walking ten extra minutes a day could help you burn an additional 10,000 calories of stored fat per year? That’s almost three pounds less body fat.

Wearing a pedometer is a good way to monitor your physical activity and remind you to keep walking. A pedometer is a small device that counts every step you make, whether you’re walking around the office or going on a lunchtime fitness walk.

Once you get a pedometer, wear it daily to see how much you move in a normal day. After you've tried it out for a few days, set goals for yourself to move more. To start, you can walk an extra 1,000 steps each day, take the stairs instead of the elevator or park further from the office door. For fitness, you want to take at least 10,000 extra steps – that’s one-mile. Pretty soon you could be on your way to walking 10,000 steps or more a day!

Keeping active doesn't have to be hard, by using a pedometer to track your progress you can make moving around easy and fun!