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“ I was athletic and played many sports in my younger years. As I grow older and became too comfortable in life, I lost focus on my health, gained weight, and became a lazy bum. In 2021, it hit me hard … ”
Anonymous
Victoria, 25 Oct 2023
“ The 10,000 Steps Challenges for me have been a motivation - transformation - for my fitness levels. Along with me, my daughter Alice is nearly 6 months old , and we are both exercising together getting stronger every day. Not … ”
Kate L
South Australia, 7 Dec 2022
“ It has been such an interesting exercise and created so much enthusiasm, competition and unity in the team of five members. We learned such creative ways of being active and getting our bodies moving, enjoying places we had not ventured … ”
Anonymous
Victoria, 7 Nov 2022
“ As a kid in the 80s we walked a lot and being in the country played sport and rode our bikes. As a young teenager I discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of the mid-80s body building royalty, so that … ”
Mark E
South Australia, 10 Oct 2022
“ In September 2019 I looked at a picture of my beautiful daughter's wedding and was shocked at what I looked like. I wore size 44 pants and XXXXL shirt size, weighed 115kg and had four chins. At that moment I … ”
David K
Queensland, 6 Jan 2022
“ I started the 10,000 Steps challenge with a goal of 5,000 steps per day after double knee replacement. On average I am at 2,995 steps per day making the 5,000 steps at least once a week and sometimes twice. I … ”
Anonymous
South Australia, 11 Oct 2021
“ I joined a team to do a 200,000,000 step tournament at first I found it difficult to do 10,000 steps in 1 day as to went on I added 2,000 steps per day now coming close to the end I … ”
Anonymous
Queensland, 7 Sep 2021
“ The older I get the more my body tells me to slow down - my doctor said if you don't you use it you will lose it - referring in particular to knee pain. So I joined 10,000 Steps. I … ”
Anne W
Queensland, 8 Feb 2021
“ Hi all, as a member of a women's football division in isolation and unable to train with our team mates, we decided to invite our members of our Brisbane Women's Premier League, to join our "Wobbly Bums/mums" mature aged female … ”
Anonymous
Queensland, 13 May 2020
“ It all started at work last year after I lost my partner to cancer, one of my colleague put me in to make up a team of five for the work 10,000 Steps competition. I found during work hours I … ”
tweezel b
New South Wales, 15 Jul 2019
“ I was already very active, however this has made it more fun. I have competitions with my mother who is also a member of 10,000 Steps. The biggest surprise with all this activity was that I won a prize for … ”
Kerry G
Queensland, 10 Jan 2019
“ I have to credit the 10,000 Steps program with getting many of my family members to exercise as they wanted to look like they are trying in our "Group". I have found the same to be true at work. The … ”
Anonymous
Outside Australia, 16 Aug 2018
“ I first started the 10,000 Steps and challenges in a 4 week Tournament in 2017 and I initially planned on conducting at least 12,000 steps per day, considering I wasn’t that active, but the ‘stepping bug’ caught me and I … ”
Wayne C
Queensland, 14 Mar 2018
“ Until 23rd February 2016 it was easy to complete 10,000 steps or higher most days. I had major right foot reconstruction on that date so was non weight bearing for 8 weeks and then gradual increases in daily stepping have … ”
Anonymous
New South Wales, 7 Mar 2017
“ Its amazing what a little exercise can do to your thought process. Two years ago my workplace did a 10,000 Steps challenge just as COVID lockdown hit, and now I am living on the 10,000 Steps website for the next … ”
Scott W
Outside Australia, 30 Jan 2023
“ My 10,000 Steps Story is really a story about taking one step at a time. My first step found me facing up to the fact that my job and lifestyle is embarrassingly and unhealthily sedentary! My second step was realising … ”
Anonymous
Queensland, 3 Mar 2016
“ I have been a member of 10,000 Steps since 2008, on and off. In 2010 I snapped my right Achilles twice in the same year and then had to start a rehab program to learn to walk again. At 103.5kg … ”
Anonymous
Queensland, 4 Apr 2012
“ Today's the day I clocked up over 77 million steps on 10000steps.org.au! :) I've been with you since you started in 2001, so that's roughly 350,000,000 steps annually. As I'm now 85, by a conservative extrapolation, I may have walked … ”
Peter H
Outside Australia, 18 Sep 2023
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