For my data collection I decided to track the amount of steps I take for a week. On the iPhone there is the health app that tracks everything that is related to your health from steps to the amount of flights climbed in a day. Walking is an everyday thing, and I was curious on how many steps I actually take throughout the week.
If Someone was to look at my data, they can probably assume that I don’t really do crazy amounts of walking during the week, except for a few occasions. They can also jump to a conclusion that I don’t have school two days of the week and during those two days I’m just relaxing and enjoying my day off.
The three days that probably grabs the person’s attention are Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Friday and Saturday are the lowest because those two days would be the days I don’t have school, and I prefer to stay home, especially in this weather. But Thursday November 7th was the highest because those were one of those days with the occasional “adventure” with my friends after school.
During the week of tracking my data, I only had three days with more than 10,000 steps. Thursday, November 7th was when I went to the city after class with my friends and totaled about 21,000 steps. The next day that is high in steps was on Monday the 11th where I had around 15,000 steps because once again I also went to the city with my friends. Wednesday was a total of 11,500 steps because I had went to work, the building I work at is about a mile walk there and back from the nearest train station.
I chose to track my steps because growing up I always tried to track my steps with those pedometers. I would always end up cheating and shaking the tracker to make it seem like I walked way more than I actually did, it was just a force of habit that I couldn’t seem to control. But with the technology we have in our phones, we can track more than just our steps in a day, but for the week,the month and the year. It also tracks the amount of miles we walked and how many flights of stairs we have climbed throughout the day. This may seem like small details but they are surprising when you actually take a look and find out information that you weren’t even expecting.
According to the app, I took an average of 11,166 steps in the week of Nov 7-13. I average almost the same amount of steps this week as I did last week, so far this month I’m averaging fewer steps than I did last month by around 650 steps per day and I’m already averaging more steps per day this year than I did last year. Collecting this data was actually very fun and easy, I learned a lot of new things that I didn’t even know. It was so easy to track and access this data that I will still continue to keep track of the data to see if there are any big changes in my routine.
I thought it was unique that you decided to track your steps throughout the week. I never really thought anything of the health app on my phone until I read your analysis. Knowing that a healthy person should walk at least 10,000 steps a day, it’d be useful to track that for myself from now on.
I think this is a cool project and idea that can help you check your health too. Do you feel like the days that you took more steps led to you being more tired or maybe you being more organized? Do you think you take too many steps a week or too little steps a week. Overall this was a great concept and I might even consider doing this tracking for myself because I feel like I take too many steps.
I find your project useful because I’m trying to be more active and your data is based off the amount of steps you took that week. So I believe that it would motivate me to walk more if I start to track the amount of steps I take per day. I’m going to want to see the amount of steps I take weekly increase. I like that you included the reason why you decided to start tracking your steps because I can relate. I feel like I would’ve been the type to cheat just so I can get a high number and feel accomplished. Anyways, Do you feel like this data motivated you to want to take more steps per week or did you find the amount of steps you are taking reasonable?