Do you get in 10,000 steps a day?

I do a min of 15k steps a day. I also have an office job and on my butt for 8 hrs a day, Inc lunch. I make myself step in the spot every 30 mins or so for a few mins, I walk to the furthest loo and do about 2mins stepping when there. If I'm printing anything, I step then too. If I'm at home I step watching TV or stick Alexa on and dance for a bit. I find it easy

It was a marketing ploy out of Japan to encourage walking. There's no magic number, but 10000 certainly isn't it - though obviously walking more is beneficial simply because exercise is better than no exercise. But much lower amounts are good too.
4000 seems to be the minimum I've seen, with 7,500-8000 offering definite benefits (over walking less than 4000).

Never. I WFH virtually tied to my desk
After work I exercise but it's spin class and weights so not steps

And also in January I joined slimming world and have lost 2 stone

Some weekend days I don’t but I reach 15,000+ most week days but I don’t work and have 3 schools runs a day.

Yes I realised in January I needed to move more and have been doing 10000 steps a day ever since. Except for a couple of weeks ago I hurt my back so tried but couldn't for a few days. Sometimes I've gone for walks late at night just to get the steps in. Mon-weds I work in the office so go for a walk at lunch. Walking to make a coffee, go to the loo etc is further than at home. Mondays I'm at choir so move around there. Wednesday I go jogging. Thurs and fri are wfh days but one of them I walk with DD part of the way to school and pick her up and the other one I go for a jog at lunch. Sometimes it's a bit of a chore I have to say but it's good for my mental health and my skin- I was suffering from a rash on my face before

The random bursts of dance are throughout the day btw. I’ll play a song or two and dance around to it for around 5 mins total. Each dance “session” is about 500 steps. It really adds up!

I barely hit 3000. Don’t have time to fit any walks in.

He’s definitely right about that - it’s not necessary and a big responsibility to take on if you just want to increase your steps. I do 5-12K daily

I work from home too and I do YouTube walking or step workouts videos which are basically fitness workouts that get your step count up. A half hour one first thing in the morning usually gets me to 3,000 steps, and then I do a few random bursts of dance or just walking around in my flat for 5-10 minutes away from my desk that adds up to 2,000, so I’m at 5,000 before even leaving the house usually.

If I walk up to the library and back on my lunch (20 minutes) its another 3500 step so takes me to 8.5K.. I’m usually happy to get to 8K steps but if i do a 15 minute step workout in the evening it is another 1.5K which gets me to 10K steps.

If I go to the gym too it ends up being way over 10,000

I manage about 5k most days. But I focus more on brisk walking rather than the amount of steps - there’s an app called Active 10 that records how many minutes of brisk walking you do and you aim for 3 x 10 min bursts of brisk walking in a day. I find that more achievable and it’s good for your cardiovascular fitness etc.

For me to do 10k plus steps I’d have to literally be on my feet for a few hours everyday and I just can’t do that - disabled child to care for etc etc.

I walk a lot, to the kitchen to scoff, to the bathroom to ahem, to the fridge, to the dishwasher, to the washing machine, to the clothes line, to the vacuum cleaner (and then say to hell with that today), and to the door to collect parcels, to the car, to the tram, to the garden (to sit in it for the five minutes it's not raining) and then I sit down at last after my 3k.

I do 3k a day most days, that's because my watch tells me. I am not worried about steps. Do millions of steps, do some, do none. No one will mind.

My average is about 20k. Club runner and two dogs that need to be walked separately that hate running…

I set my target as 5000. I generally do more than 10,000 per day, but it's on days that I'm nowhere near that a low target will motivate me more to put in a little effort to reach a more attainable target.

Plus some sports like swimming, cycling or weights don't really register so I don't want to feel off-goal when I've already had a healthy dose of activity.

10,000 is arbitary, but the more we move, the better for our bodies. Not all steps have equal benefuts though.

My pb is 61,084. That was marathon day which also involved significant use of public transport systems that added several thousand on top.

I mostly do.

At the weekend I do parkrun most Saturdays (am currently on 10,292) and walk the dog and go for walks as well as a gym workout which provides frustratingly few steps but is good for bone density and core strengthening.

During the week it can be a bit hit or miss. If I do my usual of parking a mile or so away from the office where it's free and walk along the canal that's my 10k there and back. If I work from home I have to make a concerted effort to go for a walk before I start, a 30 min dog walk and then something else as well. The days I get the bus into work are generally my lowest, as having paid bus fare, I find myself unkeen to get off early.

It may be an arbitrary number, but I generally feel better, sleep better and put on less weight or maintain when I'm doing a constant minimum 10k per day. I listen to Audible books as well to give me something to do.

I found it easier to get the 10k in when I worked from home as I used the time I normally was commuting to go to the gym or for an extra run.

20000 a day, sometimes more. I walk to work and back.

Yes! The benefits are massive. If I ever feel bloated a 40m walk sorts me out.

Office job, 3 days WFH.

What works for me is first thing to go for a 30m walk, take a podcast or check emails = 3k

Lunch time walk = 2k

Pre dinner walk = 2k

Miscellaneous steps = 2.5k

Even little things like when you go to the supermarket, park further or walk round the car park!

On days when I go into the office, I walk there and back, so can hit 13k-15k those days.

If raining I will ride on my exercise bike and check emails. I also bought a desk riser so I stand for the first hour of the day too at home.

TBH 4k is probably your minimum for health benefits. But to help weight control more is good as it increases your NEAT ( how much you move in the day). I also feel much more alert, and sleep better if I walk in the mornings.

Yes, because I walk to the gym and back 6 days a week. I’ve done 13, 453 already today and I’m off out on foot soon.

That should say I *walk to the shops etc.

I do at least, usually it's 15-20k. But I think how achievable this is is entirely circumstance dependent. I live in the town and to the shops etc, and have a dog that I walk most days. I'm walking around all day at work. I know when I've stayed with relatives who live where they're very car dependent, I barely touch 5k, even with a dog walk. It doesn't make me feel good tbh, maybe because I'm used to being active pretty much all day. As a result, I wouldn't choose to live somewhere where I couldn't walk to the shops and amenities that I need to use on a daily basis.

Yes, I manage that on average - 2,000 each way commute, 2,000 at lunchtime, 3,000 walking in the evening to the library/shops/takeaway, and 1,000 pottering round the house.

You'll gain (on average) health benefits for every additional thousand steps from 3,000 up to 20,000, so really your target should be as much as possible - but if you don't have enough time then do the walking that you do have time for at a faster pace, and get in as much stair and hill climbing as you can.

Yes 99% of the time. But sometimes I have to walk up and down the lounge or jog in place to get them in especially if the weather is bad.

My physio says the 10,000 steps is a myth. 3000 is just attainable for some whilst others feel they aren’t achieving anything close to fitness if they reach 20,000. Do what suits you.

I try to. If I haven't I try to go out for an evening walk but that's much easier in the summer than the winter. Even now, the nights are starting to draw in and once I've put the DC to bed, it can be starting to get dark and doesn't feel too safe where we live for me to be out on my own.

No. Never. Even in covid I went for an hours walk every afternoon but was never anywhere near that.