The Sweat app features a step tracker to help motivate you to stay active and reach your daily step goal!

There are so many added benefits to increasing your daily steps! Reaching your daily step goal can help reduce your risk of many common health problems, such as:

• Heart Disease
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• Depression 

To allow this function, you will need to give Sweat permission to access your Health Data.

iOS

To enable 'Steps', select the Sweat Drop in the top right-hand corner of the screen. This will bring you to the Sweat Summary.

Under your Daily Goals, select 'Connect' to start tracking your steps. 

You will need to allow Sweat to access Health Data on your device and turn all categories on.

Android

To enable 'Steps', select the Sweat Drop in the top right-hand corner of the screen. This will bring you to the Sweat Summary.

Under your Daily Goals, select 'Connect' to start tracking your steps. 

You will need to allow Sweat to view and store activity/nutrition in Google Fit on your device.

If you do not have a Google Fit account, you can easily create an account by following the steps below:

1. Download the Google Fit App
2. Open the Google Fit app
3. Sign in with your Google account
4. To accept the terms, tap 'Accept & Continue'
5. Open Sweat
6. Navigate to your Sweat Summary and tap 'Connect'.

 Once you have activated Steps, you can set how many steps you would like to aim for each day!

1. In your Sweat Summary, tap 'Steps'
2. Use the + and - buttons to increase or decrease your daily step goal
3. Tap 'Steps'
4. To save, select 'Done' in the top left-hand corner of your screen.

To view your previous and current day's steps, tap 'Planner' at the bottom of the screen. 

If you're unsure on what to set your daily step goal to, a great starting point is 10 000. Through various studies performed around the world, the average adult takes 3000-4000 per day. A 30-minute walk (LISS) can increase your steps by another 3000-4000! If you can't hit 10 000 per day, reduce to 8 000 and start there. 

Try these tips to increase your daily steps!

1. Take your pet for a walk.
2. Catch up with your family & friends by going for a walk.
3. Instead of sitting down during your kids/siblings sporting events/practices, go for a walk.
4. Add music with a catchy beat to increase your speed & steps.
5. Take the stairs instead of the lift/elevator.
6. Park further away and walk the rest of the way.
7. Go for a walk on your lunch break & take your one-on-one meetings outside.