We all (hopefully) know the recommendation for adult/youth daily physical activity (PA), right?
If not, here it is: 60 minutes, daily and to make sure it's moderate-vigorous in intensity.
Do you get 60 minutes of daily activity? Every day?
Due to the nature of our jobs and academic majors, I'd like to hope we are all as active as we think we are, but have you recently ever really tracked this? For the next few weeks, we will use several means to track our PA and I hope we all are well within that 60 minute recommendation.
But think of all of the other people out there who do not love sport, movement, fitness, Physical Education, or have an active job. Part of our role as movement specialists is to make sure people know what is going on with their own bodies and use their bodies to achieve/maintain a healthy, happy life. We will all not work with athletes every day, and so some of our students and clients will need to start with the basics--one step at a time. That's were pedometers can be a really useful tool to track a basic measure of PA: steps.
In your comments below, share how you have (or not) tracked your PA. What methods of tracking your PA do you prefer and why?
Lastly, if you had to guess how many steps you take on an average weekday, how many would you guess (place this guess in your post as well).
