I try to walk as much as possible every day, but inevitably there are days when I hardly walk at all. You can see them on the photo above. On Sundays when the stores are closed, or on days when my partner picks up our daughter from school, this is the kind of day I have.
I realize that people in Germany are good at going out for a walk, while I, who grew up in Tokyo, a concrete jungle and shopping paradise, am not good at going out without a purpose, like "to go see a flower shop."
I pretended to ignore this problem for a long time, but when I started @actifit thanks to the 5000 AFIT from @hive-ja and observing my daily step count more thoroughly, the problem bother me. Also it's good to improve it for my health.
Yesterday it was Sunday, a dangerous day for me because it was Easter Sunday with few stores were open at the central station, and I had already been to the Easter market so I had less reasons to go out.
In the morning, I forced myself to go out to water plants in my office. And we did an Easter treasure hunt in the garden and increased a bit to about 4000 steps.
I wanted to go over 5,000 steps and felt my body heavy before and after dinner, so I went for a 20-minute walk around the neighborhood. A walk at night is not bad 😊
During my evening walk I was listening to a talk about Ayurveda, and it seems that it is natural for the body to become heavier in the spring. According to an advice in the talk, it's good to eat bitter foods. I looked up which kind of food they were and found asparagus, my favorite, is one of them 🙌 I'm going to buy some asparagus tomorrow when the stores open.
I'm going to try to walk a little every now and then like I did yesterday and try to make more than 5,000 steps every day 😊
Do you have any tips on how to walk consistently every day or anything that you are careful about? If so, please let me know!
日々なるべく歩こうとしているのですが、どうしてもほとんど歩かない日が出てきます。上の画像のがっつーんと歩数がない日がそれです。お店が閉まる日曜日、相方が子供の送り迎えをしてくれた日などこういう感じになります。
ドイツの人はとりあえず歩きに行くのが上手で、一方、コンクリートジャングル＆買い物天国な東京育ちの私は「お花屋さんを見に行く」といった目的なしに出かけるのが苦手なのを実感します。
この問題は長らく見て見ぬ振りをしていたのですが、@hive-ja のギブアウェイで5000AFITいただいて @actifit を始めて、以前よりも日々の歩数を見るようになると、やっぱり気になります。健康のことを考えても改善した方がよさそうです。
昨日の日曜日は、イースターの日曜日で中央駅でも開いているお店は少ないし、イースターマーケットはもう見に行ってしまったし、歩数が激減する危ない日でした。1000歩以下みたいなのは避けたくて、朝オフィスまで唐辛子に水やりに行きました。お昼にちょいちょい動いて、庭でイースターの宝探しをしてちょっと増えて4000歩ほど。
5000歩を超えたかったのと、お夕飯の前後で体が重い気がしたので、近所に20分ほど散歩に行ってきました。夏時間になり、お夕飯のあともまだ明るくて歩きやすかったです。夜の散歩も悪くないですね。
夜の散歩中はアーユルヴェーダについて聞いていたのですが、春に体が重くなるのは自然なことのようです。苦味のある食べ物を食べるとよくて、どうやら大好物のアスパラガスがその一つらしい。明日お店が開いたらさっそく買ってきてもりもり食べようと思います。
昨日のようにちょいちょい歩いて毎日5000歩は超えるようにがんばろうと思います😊みなさん、毎日コンスタントに歩くコツや気をつけていることなどありますか？あったらぜひ教えてください！
The best way I found is when I can fit it into my everyday life - like walking to and from the office. If I can't do that, I try and walk to the store everyday and buy one or two things (not ideal because sometimes one or two things becomes many more). Where I was living before I had walks of diffrent duration - twenty minutes, forty minutes, an hour, that I could put into my day. I haven't found the equivalent here yet.
In the summer, I try and walk in the early morning before the temerature rises. It is also a wonderful time to be outside. I find walking is quite addictive, the more I do it, the more I want to do it, sometimes, I don't want to come back into the house from outside! 😂
Thanks for sharing your tips @shanibeer 😁
Visiting stores was a good technique in Japan ... but not so much in Germany as shops close on Sundays ;) Taking a walk to my office to see and water plants will be alternative. And I understand that once we go out, it's hard to come back especially in summer.
私も同じような感じです・・以前どこかで「健康のためには8,000歩がちょうどいい」と読んだので一応それを目標にしていますが、3,000歩にすら満たない日も結構あります😅
歩数が上手く伸びるのは、午前中にある程度歩いた日です。元気のある午前のうちに2,000～3,000歩歩いておくと、午後にちょっと歩き足りないなーと思ったときに同じく2,000～3,000歩歩けばよいので。。夕方の段階で1,000歩くらいだと、プラスで歩くのも大変で諦めちゃいます😅
私も数日前にアーユルヴェーダの本で8000歩という数字を見ました。まずは5000歩から…
小分けに歩くのコツかもしれませんね。マーケットの日なんかだと一日中歩き回って軽くクリアできてしまうので不思議です。