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I started walking briskly recently. I just love it. I will find any excuse to get outside and walk. I walk to work, I walk to shop. This way, I am walking between 15-20k steps on any day. It sounds crazy, but it’s actually easily achievable if you start thinking about ways to tie it in your daily activities.

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15-20k steps/day sounds a lot if your day job doesn't involve walking around. Before the pandemic, my typical day was 10-15k steps. But now that I'm working from home, it takes some effort to reach 10k, because I have fewer reasons to leave home.

The same with me. I plummeted from 9k a day to 5.5k a day and it has taken a toll on my mood.

“Easily achievable” depends significantly on where you live (and of course your health).

Sidewalks might as well be illegal in most parts of my home city, given how many areas are completely devoid of them.

Thank you god I'm not an American.

Walking on grass is better for joint and fine motor control due to the balance adjustments of slightly uneven ground

Fair enough. I guess I should have left “easily” out.

As more people start wanting to walk, there will be more sidewalks. Start demanding for it and you will get it.

We didn’t add any street lights in the city for 30 years due to budget constraints. U.S. infrastructure is, in a lot of ways, barely functional.

And I’m disinclined to risk my life to try to prove a futile point. Walking very far here is dangerous due to narrow roads, bridges with no sidewalks, etc.

Time to move I guess!

We live in a democracy! Hope you understand that if you and enough people around you want changes in your neighborhood/community it is totally possible.

Start making changes and influencing people instead of saying its futile. Change is always possible.

There was once a time when men risked their lives for what they believed in. At least, that is the mantra I repeat when I feel endangered walking through my city.

I agree! It sounds crazy but you can build it up slowly. Now in my "low days", when I work too much and finish late, I have just some 12000 steps. In "good days" periods, it has become normal for me to get 20000 steps.

I set just one rule: go for fast pace walk every day no matter the weather and no matter the time of the day.

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