is 10,000 steps a day with 60 very active minutes a good beginning

[provi]

Is 10000 steps in 90 minutes daily good enough for a 66 year old woman who is twenty lbs over weight

[dasher]

Sounds good to me. I'm 67 and doing 10.000 in 67 minutes in the gym and 90 minutes outside. I'm reasonably fit and active with a couple of joint ache and pains. It's what is good for you. I've also found the more I move the more I'm able to do. I actually look for hills to walk up now and have reached 18.000+ in the time of three hours. I would love to reach 20.000 steps. But it won't be this month. Have fun and good luck

[Dominique]

10,000 daily steps is good. So is 90 minutes of walking. I'm a bit surprised you would get 60 minutes of VAM's with such activity, though. VAM's are normally granted for rather intense activity, like brisk walking (4.2 mph or more).

When walking briskly (about 7 km/h), I get about 9000 steps in 60 minutes, all of them qualifying as VAM's. I'm a 53-year-old male, normal weight and reasonably fit. It seems the algorithm that calculates VAM's varies from one Fitbit model to another: for instance, the Zip appears to be more generous than the One (I have a One). Calories burned and VAM's also depend on the stride length used by Fitbit (whether it was entered by you or estimated by Fitbit, based on your height).