10k steps is easy ?

I quit my Fitbit about 2 years ago. Instead I just focus on simply being as active as I can on an average day alongside scheduled exercise. It’s so nice to not be fixated on how many steps I’ve done. NEAT activity, and consciously building movement into my day.
When I was wearing it, my half hour of ironing was interpreted as swimming!

Guarantee whatever you're using to track isn't correctly calibrated. My band reckons I've done 14k steps today, but that's supermarket, 2 dog walks using the car, so using the indicators etc and up and down stepladders decorating, so lots of hand movements painting, masking up etc. I don't know if it counts me using the Internet in between times! Probably.

And I eat 50g of fibre a day

So you're out walking for 7 hours and covering 25+ miles. Impressive stuff.

Same here

I feel like several years ago the aim was 20k daily, no

No it’s 50k 🙄

How tall are you? I’m 5’10” and a mile is 2000 steps for me.

Which bit don't you get? If I'm out walking, I do about 2,500 steps to a mile, fewer at the beginning when I'm fresh, more when I'm tired and my stride shortens.

I'd have to walk an hour on top of my housework to get in 10k steps

I did abput 5k as a state school teacher and about 7k in boarding. Are you suggesting I’m lying?
Edit: and my point was that it isn’t that much - so 10k steps isn’t a minimal amount of moving about.

You must live in a mansion without a maid bless you

You must have an enormous house, I have a three bed townhouse and barely clock up 2500 in a day. Even a trip to the supermarket on foot and the pub in the evening doesn’t trouble the 5k mark. That said I do not have a Fitbit or similar so it’s from my phone

This is sooo a feed a family of 4 for a week on one small roast chicken thread, isn’t it? 🤣

And yet several posts have stated they do barely any steps so it’s clearly quite common to not walk that much as a teacher.

As ever, Mumsnet oneupmanship going on. For various reasons, quite genuine ones, many will struggle to achieve 5k in a day. Surely all movement is good, whether that be through ironing or hiking.

Yes it is! Have you been one? Around the classroom repeatedly. Between. Rooms. Between buildings. Not remotely the same as standing at a desk.

As I said. I was a secondary teacher on a site with buildings all over the place. Walked around classrooms and between buildings all day. Full disclosure - I was also boarding staff so did it all evening most days too. 7k. Tops.

I have a Garmin and love it (forerunner 963, I think)? When I start the day with a jog from home to work, which is 7km and takes me about 50 min(I’m slow! Also stop at traffic lights etc), I’m usually about 10,000 steps when I arrive. And right now my average step count for the last seven days is on almost exactly 10K steps and average distance is 7km. what is your watch saying about your distance each day? Hard to see how you can walk 7km in a two bed flat?!

I suspect your Garmin isn’t properly calibrated.

I feel like several years ago the aim was 20k daily, no?

Neevr heard about 20k target. I've obly gotten that if I've gone for a hike or had a city break where we walk everywhere. Never on average daily life day.

I struggle to get to 10k unless I go for a designated walk. I would get to that doing housework only if I was doing a big cleanup that required tons back and forth to the recycling and rig clenaing etc.
I really don't get to 10k without noticing 😂

Standing doesn’t equal walking though. As a teacher you’re never really moving very far, it’s not actually particularly active.

I stand at my desk, it doesn’t mean I’m being active.

If you don’t actually walk anywhere it will be difficult, if you do it will be easy.
You need to live a remotely active life for it to be easy, as I said if you drive everywhere, sit down all day and have to go in a pointless loop walk just to get some steps in you will feel like it’s effort.
Anyone who struggles to walk 7km over an entire day is not as active as they think they are.

I'm on my feet all day in a busy primary school classroom, walking between tables and activities, outdoors for playground duties, walking between buildings during the day etc, but my Fitbit still only counts 3000 steps max by the time I get home in the evening. It is technically sedantry despite not being 'seated' work, I'd say.

I do another 1k doing cooking, tidying and sorting out DC (ours is a small 3 bed semi) after work. Before bed I get on my walking treadmill at the fastest setting to make up the remaining 6ish k which usually takes about an hour of walking at pace while catching up on some telly.

Quite. Saying "I did 51000 steps" doesn't mean anything I'm afraid.

I work in a school and I’m on my feet all day. I walk to and from work, just over a mile each way. That gives me 10k and then I do extra in the evening. I think your tracker is inaccurate.