Ooops!…a tale of caution…😬🤦🏻‍♀️🙄😩

[LottieMW]

So having achieved my #12MinuteChallenge yesterday…I noticed I had 16 brisk minutes on my Active10 app.

Now it’s my habit to march around the kitchen/dining room whilst waiting for the kettle to boil to add on 1 or 2 extra brisk minutes…so I thought that this would be a doddle to get to a total of 20 brisk minutes for my day 😄

Having made a couple of drinks over the course of the evening, I thought that I would check my phone while I was watching TV…still on 16 minutes!?! 😳

Then I realised…both times that I had gone to the kitchen…I had left my phone on my arm chair! 😩

Having gotten used to looking at my Fitbit to check my steps…I had totally forgotten that my brisk walking is measured on my phone!!! 😬🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

[CBDB Administrator]

🤣🤣🤣 (I never thought of using indoor walking for the Active10 or the #12minChallenge! 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️ Great call! Need to test if my phone accepts that, as I thought GPS is involved, and with too small distances my phone has in the past ignored these short walks)

[LottieMW Administrator in reply to CBDB]

This came about because of the Fitbit 250 steps in an hour thing! You get a warning with 10 minutes left in the hour if you haven’t completed your 250 steps, and if I’ve been engrossed in a programme/book/posting on socmed I’ll have the whole 250 to do. 😬

I’m not travelling far! My living room will take about 8 steps…the kitchen/dining room about the same. If I walk fast or slow jog for the whole 250 steps I’ll get 2 Active10 brisk minutes. So my pace/speed is about 120 steps per minute.

If I recall Active10 won’t pick up stationary activity like the Lucy Wyndham-Read step workouts, although Fitbit will record the steps.

I’m not sure but I think Runkeeper once auto tracked 15 minutes in the house when I was doing a massive tidy up?

[CBDB Administrator in reply to LottieMW]

Thanks. I need to test this with Runkeeper. I usually have the automatic pausing feature on, which might be the reason that I thought it doesn’t work. Thank you for the tip!

[Wine 1000miles per year]

I have done that countless times... Thank you for this you are a star and you do the walking thing as well whilst waiting for the kettle to boil... Same here the steps all add upDo you step whilst you cook... Sometimes I do

[LottieMW Administrator in reply to Wine]

it’s so annoying when you realise what you’ve done!

I don’t cook…Mr.L does it all 😁

I’ve always found reaching 10,000 steps hard to achieve…one of the reasons I came here for the brisk minutes!😂

[Wine 1000miles per year in reply to LottieMW]

I get the steps in when I grab a cuppa and then listening to books or you tube self talking audios... Followed Mel Robbins about mindset... I listened to part 1...apparently its in four parts... Maybe tomorrow I will find part 2

[Folkylass]

Oh VRB …. I did chuckle when I read this.😂😂😂. Thank you!🥰

[LottieMW Administrator in reply to Folkylass]

😬🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

[Folkylass in reply to LottieMW]

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