How much do you walk a day at work?
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Soldato
I used to do a fair bit as I walked a mile to and from work, although work itself is just sat at a desk. Now I live much closer so it's only 5mins each way 
Man of Honour
A couple of miles maybe over 3 daily at least, including walking to and from stations, stairs, around office etc.
Soldato
Smart phones also have GPS which track your movement.
Soldato
I use a fitbit to measure steps, within the settings you can input your stride length.
I keep meaning to get the missus to measure it for me! ooh err!
Caporegime
New job close to home means now I drive instead of walking to the train station, average walking steps went down from about 10k to hundreds.
Man of Honour
Step data doesn't use GPS, you can be in airplane mode and still count your steps as long as the app is configured with the correct data
It's only when you want to track it on a map that location based data comes into play.
As you can see, my town is full of potatoes
It's only when you want to track it on a map that location based data comes into play.
As you can see, my town is full of potatoes
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Man of Honour
Depends on the phone you have. S Health is really good if you have a Samsung phone, it does more than Google Fit. But Google Fit connects with other services like Fitbit/Strava and so on.
I use Google Fit for that reason.
Man of Honour
I had a workmate who used to wind me up because he stood in one place all day but because he moved in that square yard workspace his step counter would keep rising. At the end of the day he had 'walked' 10 miles
In all similar threads people make fantastic claims like 'I live 1 mile from my pub and I can walk it in 10 minutes' so I'd like to point out that average walking speed is 3 mph and for those who think they can walk at 4 mph over a distance the vast majority are in La La Land. In the past I have had such claimants on my treadmill and they soon give up.
However, if a hospital porter spends 50% of their day walking then they could easily reach that 10 miles mark. We have one guy at our hospital who never stops and he runs to most places. He's the guy that gets patients hospital notes and gets them to other departments asap and I'd love to put a proper counter on him.
I have a Note 4, but thinking about it I don't carry my phone on me when at work or home anyway as I don't get signal (for texts/calls) unless the phone is sat peacefully in specific corners
So I guess I would have to get a fitbit or something but tbh, I'm not interested in spending money to tell me what I already know, that I don't do enough exercise
Soldato
http://imgur.com/a/4kbPW
How do you upload IMGUR's straight into a post..? But anyway, this was one day a couple of weeks ago on exercise
