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"fairly active" is relative.

you should count steps with a fitbit or something and you might see you arent as active as you think, that's my guess.

in any case, the gym is always necessary. the idea that it wouldn't be necessary would mean you get like 80,000 steps (or equivalent) per week which is highly unlikely. you would know if you walked that much--you'd have to walk at least a mile to work and a mile home or something everyday to reasonably avoid having to do other exercises and be healthy. probably more.

a day that feels fairly active can still end up being like 4000 steps or so, below the 10,000 standard goal, and even 10,000 step is not enough to not work out. more like 20,000 to be fit.

steps are just a way to think about calories, things like weight-lifting are the best for losing weight because you burn so many calories doing it. as long as you're moving some iron, the energy is only coming from you, and that makes a huge difference. the force required to do most modern tasks is negligible. you can look up charts to translate time lifting into steps.

step-counting is the other half of calorie counting, a way to measure how active you were.

anyway if you go to the gym you wont have to do all this boring stuff