As we prepared for the UNMC Walks to the Olympics Challenge in the PR office, our brand manager Dawn Nevarez shared the following tips with us, which she learned in previous step challenges:
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| Get a real pedometer, says UNMC PR’s Dawn Nevarez. |
- Get a real pedometer — don’t use your phone. Unless you have it hanging around your neck, you’ll miss hundreds, maybe thousands of steps.
- Put your pedometer on the minute you step out of bed. I average 1,500 steps before I walk out the door in the morning.
- You’ll be amazed how many steps you get while cooking dinner and cleaning up. Where is your phone while you’re cooking? On the counter missing all those steps.
- Take the stairs. But if you must take an elevator — walk around while you wait. You can get more than 100 steps while you wait!
So do you have any tips on how to get more steps? Comment on this story and share them with us!
Our team members are also using the Cross-Training Conversion tool to calculate comparable steps for other activities such as walking to golf, swimming, biking, running, and structured exercise classes to get credit for the great variety of activities available to improve our fitness and contribute to the team effort to get to London. – Ann Kruger, Olympic Team MMI captain