{"id":572,"date":"2011-07-24T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2011-07-23T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T14:26:56","slug":"global-fit-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/global-fit-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Fit Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

At work, we’ve started a “new program” that “encourages you to track your steps and help you to focus on your fitness in a simple and accessible way. The core component of Destination: You<\/em> is the Tracker, which uses an accelerometer to accurately calculate the number of steps, distance walked, calories burned and time of activity.”<\/p>\n

I thought I could use the motivation to get up and move around a bit more (and maybe even go to the gym), so I signed up.\u00a0 The results from week 1 were not exactly pretty.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t get the trackers until Tuesday afternoon, so that explains the low total there.\u00a0 According to The Walking Site<\/a>, a sedentary person\u00a0averages only 1,000 to 3,000 steps\u00a0per day, and I am barely surpassing that.\u00a0 Of course, this doesn’t count any steps I take at home, since I don’t wear my shoes in the house, but I doubt that would provide any\u00a0significant increase.<\/p>\n

I guess I am posting this in order to shame myself into doing better and to track any progress I may make.\u00a0 They say 10,000 steps per day is a good guideline.\u00a0 After 1 week, I barely approached the halfway point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At work, we’ve started a “new program” that “encourages you to track your steps and help you to focus on your fitness in a simple and accessible way. The core component of Destination: You is the Tracker, which uses an accelerometer to accurately calculate the number of steps, distance walked, calories burned and time of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[732,733,551],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","tag-globalfit","tag-the-walking-site","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}