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Best way to track steps on daily walk

Aging Well | Last Active: Aug 23 11:08am | Replies (46)

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Never counted ... since I learned to stand up...8 decades ago ... because Movement is Pleasure.
Strange what we did out of our inborn impulse/instinct, grows so rusted as we grow old.
Something is not right with our ways of living.
Let's recall the pleasure we felt when we moved -- ran, jumped, climbed and...

Our bodies are smart enough to remind us -- through a feeling of tiredness -- when it's time to slow down or stop. We don't need SOMEONE (or someTHING) telling US as WE know best when to continue on or stop.

As I came back from subway to bus carrying 15 lbs of cat litter and 6 lbs of grocery up and down many steps, walking another ten minutes to my suite on 2nd floor (yes there is elevator) I teased myself, 'How about walking up some more? Two more floors I was breathing heavy with mouthfuls of air; two more floors my Excitement was wearing out. Walking down used different muscles. Unloading to my apt I felt good and tired. Oh, I never looked what floor on way up. Staying in tune with body is wiser.

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It's interesting. I can walk for MILES. Five miles easily every day and 10 if I push it a little bit but walking up 4-5 flights of stairs tires me out. I guess stairs are a different kind of stamina.

Not sure where you live, but I live near New York City and took a tour of the old tenements on the Lower East Side. Back in the day, wealthier people lived on the ground floors and the poorer people lived on the 4th and 5th floors. Elevators changed all that.