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Walk It Off

This month’s challenge is to up your movement by walking more. As I’m sure you’ve read, doctors recommend walking around 10000 steps per day (or more) to promote an active lifestyle.

I am pretty sure I don’t walk that much, especially at my desk job. The bathroom isn’t that far away and I don’t have to travel through the building often. BUT, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t get up off of my hiney and walk around on my own.

I don’t love walking, as I’ve said before. But I’m willing to take 30 days and challenge myself to see how many steps I can do in a month.

I don’t expect you to do 10000 steps per day. I just want you to make an effort to walk more over the next 30 days.

Most of us sit for 8 hours or so at our jobs. This has shown to be exceedingly dangerous, as our fluids just pool where they are, rather than move around and go to the correct places. I want us to do something about that.

You will need a pedometer to get an accurate reading of your steps. Or you need some sort of monitor that measures distance. These are very easy to find at most stores (Target, Walmart, etc.) or Amazon.

So WALK IT OFF!

The Rules:

1. Leave your comment on this post to announce your intent to commit to the challenge. You must do so by Wednesday, April 6. If you can’t commit to this one, don’t worry – there are 9 more coming!

2. If you have a blog, it would be great if you could do a weekly summary of what you did for the challenge.

3. If you don’t have a blog, I would love to receive a weekly summary via email of what you did for the challenge. OR, you can always do a guest post for me (meaning you write it and I post it here) about what you did.

4. On April 30, I will enter all of the participant names into a drawing. The winner receives: