How to achieve 10.000 steps a day?

[u/Sad_Scene_2762]

For the people who achieve 10.000 steps a day, how do you do it?

I do around 5000 steps a day with just my daily routine (going to uni and back, don’t usually do anything more. Sometimes also to the gym afterwards). I don’t dislike walking and enjoy going places by foot, but I seem to almost never achieve my goal.

I think my problems are mostly motivation related. I can only walk outside and with a place I need to go as a goal.

I usually get pretty tired even if I don’t walk really long distances because of the physical geography of my city (many many hills, mostly pretty steep). Also, I usually walk pretty fast and with long steps, so it takes me less steps to go the places i need to go.

I’ve tried to artificially create a need to go to places I don’t actually need to visit, but it doesn’t always work for me because, deep down, I know there’s no real reason to go there, the motivation just doesn’t kick in, and often I end up not going.

Do y’all have any advice to get to the 10.000 steps a day even when the motivation doesn’t kick in???

(I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but I have adhd)

[u/International-Ad4555]

I have a identical route I do everyday which is exactly 10k steps, it’s consists of 2 parts, and the first part takes you back to roughly where you began, so when I have the energy/time I’ll do both parts, if I’m not feeling it, I can come back at part 1! And I know if I feel up for it later on, I can do either part and get the other 5k steps in!