{"id":15465,"date":"2020-03-07T02:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2020-01-19T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T20:47:51","slug":"the-decade-in-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-decade-in-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decade In Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The 2010s have drawn to a close and its time to take a look back at the previous decade. Today, we finish off the series with exercise, specifically my step performance between 2010 and 2019.\u00a0I started tracking my daily step totals in July of 2011, thanks to a program at work that “\u201cencourages you to track your steps and help you to focus on your fitness in a simple and accessible way.”\u00a0 The GlobalFit Destination: You program lasted until late January, 2015.\u00a0 At the point, I had enough invested that I wanted to continue, so, after looking at a couple of options, I purchased my first Fitbit as a replacement option.\u00a0 The rest of the decade used one of 4 Fitbits I’ve had (with the most recent coming this past Christmas), giving me about 8 1\/2 years of data for the decade.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In just over 3 1\/2 years on the GlobalFit program, I finished with 6,511,500 steps.\u00a0\u00a0This estimates out to about 35,197 steps per week, or 5028 steps per day.\u00a0 My best day\u00a0came during a 2013\u00a0trip to Disney World, where excursions to both Epcot Center and the Magic Kingdom ended with 24,988 steps.\u00a0 I finished with 45 days over 10,000 steps, 4 days over 15,000 steps, and 2 days over 20,000 steps.\u00a0 Over the last year and a half, my highest weekly total was 60,216<\/a>, thanks to a trip to southern California in 2014, and my lowest total was a mere 15,800<\/a>, thanks to a long Christmas vacation that caused me to lose data before I could check back in at work.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>For the nearly 5 years remaining in the decade, I put up 13,041,430 steps tracked with a Fitbit.\u00a0 That averages out to roughly 2.6 million steps per year, or 50,159 steps per week, or 7165 steps per day, over a 2000 step increase over the GlobalFit program.\u00a0 My best day came during a 2018 trip to New York, where the day\u2019s excursions included\u00a0trips to the 9\/11 Memorial & Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, Central Park, the Guggenheim museum, and, finally, the Empire State Building.\u00a0 I finished with 216\u00a0days over 10,000 steps, 36 days over 15,000 steps, and 11 days over 20,000 steps.\u00a0 My highest weekly total was 105,924<\/a>, thanks to a trip to Washington DC last summer, and my lowest total was a mere 18,510<\/a>, which really only consisted of 3 days as I switched over from GlobalFit to Fitbit.<\/p>\n

Overall, I logged 19,552,930 steps in the 8 1\/2 years I was keeping track, with 261 days over 10,000 steps, 40 days over 15,000, and 13 days over 20,000.\u00a0 I completed 2 BTN 5Ks, 4 Sprint & Strides, 1 hike up a mountain, and numerous trips to foreign countries, amusement parks, and tourist destinations.\u00a0 My highest step total by locations were:<\/p>\n