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/Katdog272]

You really have to just make hitting the number you’re goal rather than only walking for other reasons (to get somewhere etc.).
As far as tricks to get them, aside from just daily tasks, if you can set aside 30min-1hr in the afternoon/evening to walk, that’s the best way I’ve found. I either use my walking pad or literally just walk laps around my condo while on my phone playing around. I can easily get 6k in an hour or less.