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Doing it wrong
Sep. 14th, 2014 04:27 pmAt work we've had a 'walking challenge'. Basically it's 12 weeks where teams try to do at least 8000 steps per person per day over those 12 weeks. Doesn't sound like much (since doctor's recommend 10,000 per day) but given most people don't even do that then it's a step up ("Step Up" was the name of the challenge). On addition the company will be donating money to charity based on how well we do (currently about $1.6mm).
Basically a way of "gaming" to encourage people to get fit.
The challenge finishes today. I wanted to make 1 million steps. Yesterday I was 33k steps short. So on Saturday I did a 6 mile walk and a few other things; around 16k. Today I wanted to go to the beer store (1/2 mile away) and worked out a 6 mile walk to get there. I added all the numbers up and got to 999,500-ish. So a quick 5 minutes on the elliptical got me to my target.
Which, of course, is the wrong way of doing it. The idea of the challenge was, really, to retrain people into better practices. A "sprint" is totally wrong.
And then I drank beer afterwards, totally ruining the health benefits!
But I did learn... 6 miles at 4.2mph (av) with the last half a mile carrying approx 13lbs of booze definitely causes my lower calf muscles to get tired and I have a blister on the ball of the middle toe on my right foot.
Basically a way of "gaming" to encourage people to get fit.
The challenge finishes today. I wanted to make 1 million steps. Yesterday I was 33k steps short. So on Saturday I did a 6 mile walk and a few other things; around 16k. Today I wanted to go to the beer store (1/2 mile away) and worked out a 6 mile walk to get there. I added all the numbers up and got to 999,500-ish. So a quick 5 minutes on the elliptical got me to my target.
Which, of course, is the wrong way of doing it. The idea of the challenge was, really, to retrain people into better practices. A "sprint" is totally wrong.
And then I drank beer afterwards, totally ruining the health benefits!
But I did learn... 6 miles at 4.2mph (av) with the last half a mile carrying approx 13lbs of booze definitely causes my lower calf muscles to get tired and I have a blister on the ball of the middle toe on my right foot.
