This post will continue on from my last Pedals and Pedometer Steps post: Pedometer Steps Spiral. In summary that post was revealing the playing field, so to speak, of pedometer steps counting and walking for weight loss. It is similar to the training done for playing a game such as football, rather than the actual game itself. All that ongoing preparation (walking) is done for the intermittent reward of playing the game (weight loss).
Also part of the process is a natural increase in your body’s ability to perform its set tasks. To progress in your ’sport’ or weight loss, means increasing your exercise and training to a level where new efforts also increase the results. Hence the spiral-while continuing to do similar routines the intensity increases.
Any serious physical activity requires preparation and execution for success. If this is part of your job then you do it everyday and this is equivalent to mental and physical training.
My point from the last post was that aiming for the small increases in performance or results, appreciating the ones you achieve and then setting the bar a little higher, is the best way to get a large result. So with your pedometer steps’ target you should look to increase it by comfortable amounts until you reach your limit for doable daily steps. Then you can look at making a monthly target which incorporates longer walks than you might be able to do regularly. If weight loss has ceased with your daily 10000 steps then adding a monthly long walk and increasing pedometer steps by an additional 15000 to 20000 for the month, should start it again. This would bring your daily average an additional 500+ steps. All these small changes count. Sometimes the results are so small, or your eye is so used to seeing yourself, that you don’t see them. At some point you will.
Others who understand this are your best support. How you get this support is part of your preparation for success.
The about-to-be- published next edition of The New! Walker is covering an issue which Pedals & Pedometer Steps feel strongly about-the support necessary for success in weight loss. It focuses on the difference between feeling bereft with the overwhelming issue of so much weight to lose and the luxurious feeling of having the support which helps you to do your best easily, while feeling good about it.
