Getting in Shape: 10,000 Steps to Terrific Health by Thomas Ogren

A Dozen tips: Making your pedometer work for you:

1.Buy a simple step-counting pedometer. Don’t bother with more expensive ones that count the calories and the miles. Just the steps.

2.Decide to get in your 10,000 steps a day, no exceptions, and commit to it.

3.Wear a belt and clip the pedometer on over one of your hips and it will count steps better.

4.Put your pedometer on as soon as you get up in the morning. No point in not getting “credit” for any steps you take.

5.Before you eat breakfast go out and walk around the block quickly; get in some steps right off the bat.

6.Keep checking your pedometer often through the day; have an idea all the time of how many steps you already have in and how many you still need.

7.Whenever you drive somewhere, never park close; always park far away and get in some extra steps.

8.On long drives stop often and go for short, fast walks. At rest stops walk around the entire rest stop once or twice on each stop.

9.Try to take at least one long walk each day, one where you get in 3 to 4,000 steps.

10.No matter what, try and get in at least 7 to 8,000 steps each day before the sun goes down.

11. Don’t go to bed at night unless you have your 10,000 steps. If it is 11pm and you’re dog-tired and you only have 6,000 steps, well, get out that door! and start walking.

12. Every time you’re standing at the sink, waiting in line, looking in the mirror, bounce up and down and pick up some extra “steps.” They all count. Walk around while you’re talking on the phone. Never ask someone to go get something for you while you sit there. Get up and get it yourself…more steps. Use every excuse you can to pick up extra steps.

Okay now, here’s a challenge from me to you. I dare you to go get a pedometer and commit to the 10,000 steps a day. I dare you to get in as good a shape as I’m in right now. Yes, you’re a busy person and this takes time. But life is short and why shouldn’t we invest our time in something that will make us look better, feel better, in something that will make us stronger? Go on; go for it. I double dare you.

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BIO:

Tom Ogren is the author of five published books, including the revolutionary, Allergy-Free Gardening. His groundbreaking work on landscape plants and allergies has been featured on NPR, CBS Evening News, HGTV, NBC, and Fox News. Contact him through his website, www.allergyfree-gardening.com or through www.Allegra.com

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