How many steps do you walk / aim for?

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I'm 52 & have decided that 2022 is the year I get fit so i have been tracking steps & walking for an hour 3 times a week for the past couple of weeks.

I have a relatively sedentary lifestyle as I work in an office but used to walk at lunchtime when I was in work

I'm working from home a lot now so less walking incorporated into the day (walk in g to meetings / lunch etc) I averaged 5k steps without actually trying iykwim

Today I have walked 11,000 steps & some uncounted ones around the house, up & down stairs etc without the tracker.

I went on a local walk at lunch time & walked 6.36km lots of it was hilly & it really tired me out.

It got me wondering - do you walk more or less each day?

Just to add try to get a min of 30 active mins with the hope of getting 60+ a day.

17500 today.
But that's not every day for sure.
Average around 10000

I aim for the 10,000 mark but don’t always reach it if I’m working from home. I have to actively plan to walk that much, I try to walk to the shops during my lunch break. I use a cheap Fitbit type watch I got from Amazon which works perfectly. When I don’t walk a lot (during Christmas I did 300 steps ) I feel very achy.

I've managed 20k today with a 10k run.
My target is currently 5k. I set it lower a few weeks ago when I was stuck in with Covid. 5k was doable with walking workout videos. I quite enjoyed smashing my targets so am keeping it low for a bit to cheat my Garmin

It was on an auto setting and while 10k+ is usually pretty achievable, the stupid thing kept upping and upping the target which is not viable to sustain. If I've done 30k in a day substantially with running, I'm going to have a rest day next!

Since being stuck WFH and the winter my average steps are stuck down at about 3500 that includes some days (usually weekends) where I’ll do 10-12k but others where literally all I do is sit on my bum and work and step count is about 200

However I only use my phone to track so suspect I miss a lot as I don’t carry phone around the house all the time

I don't know steps but I walk about 8 miles a day on basic necessities, usually about 11-12 miles a couple of times a week when I have extra places to be.

This year I decided to walk 11k steps every day or 77k/week.
Last year I managed an average of 11.6k/day and that included some days which were v.low (thanks to C.). Amd others into 30k (summer holidays). All came up to around 4.3M steps. I was very pleased with myself.
If you wanted to walk 5M in a year you need to walk 13700 steps a day.

Fitbit says I do ~18k/day but that's wrong. Fitbit overestimates walking steps by ~15% and adds ~600 steps/15 minutes of cycling I do, too. I imagine my real walking is about 13k steps/day on average. Outdoors Walking briskly I manage ~5k steps/hour.

My ultimate aim is to average at least 10k a day but I've been tracking it for six years (I wear a clip-on pedometer as find fitbits too clunky and don't carry my phone everywhere) and annual average has ranged from 8400 to 9700. So far this year I've average 7400 so am way off target. Generally I do 9-12k on non-working days but on working days it's rarely over 7k, and that's with either walking to office and back or a lunch-time walk if WFH . I'm envious of those who manage more on working days - where do you fit it in? If WFH, I get up, dressed, get kids out of house, sit down to work, have lunchbreak if I'm lucky, work until time to cook dinner other than brief conversation with kids when home from school and then there's no way I'm going out for a walk in the dark after dinner.

On work days I do 10k - 15k steps but that's mainly because it's a job where there's not much opportunity to sit down.

At weekends I'm far lazier and it's more like 4k unless I make an effort to get out more.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I sometimes think people live in massive houses the amount of incidental (not exercise) steps they get. My MIL seems to get them by breathing... (10,000 today weeding the garden...)

I aim for 10k. It takes concentrated effort

My house isn’t massive but it’s tall, over three storeys — I work at the top, so even nipping down to the kitchen for a cup of coffee or to answer the door is about 70 steps. The school run both ways on foot twice a day is about 10k by itself, too.

I fit it in on working days by going out for a walk or a run in the dark after dinner. If I’ve not got the steps during the day I will go out until I have. I have a head torch for the dark paths. I listen to music and podcasts. Sometimes I combine it with shopping if the weather is miserable ie walk to and from “late night “ shopping centres, I make up a reason I need to get something from the shop.

Or I do a class, the local leisure centre is a 2.6km walk there and the same back. So even without the class that’s another 6.5k steps.

I've been gradually raising my step target over the past few months after a period of illness, it's now 10,000, back to what it used to be. Some days I do quite a bit more, but I want to keep it at a number that's usually achievable. I don't mind if I'm under that on the odd day; over a week the average will be higher.

I walk 10k a day. I try to do a morning walk and an evening walk so it doesn't feel like an effort. Lost a lot of weight too, so I do stay motivated to keep it up.

If I'm stuck at my desk all day it's only about 2600 steps . Tragic !
So I try to walk for about 90 mins at lunchtime. I average 6000 steps and hours this take me into the 10000 to 13000 ish range. But it's variable depending on how much work I gave on to be honest . I have got a treadmill that I use after work if it's dark or raining . ( I'm a bit of a Princess about walking in rain!)
Good luck with your quest !

• 6000 steps an hour

Mine do vary, I try for at least 15,000 a day. On Thursdays I often do around 35,000 as I do two school runs, take DD to Brownies and back, lead a walking group in the morning and go to running club in the evening.

I’ve got a watch that tracks my steps and most other things too! It actually sets me a step goal for each day so it’s often different. If I’ve been sat down too long it tells me to move.

Usually around 12-15k on a weekday. I've just done the school run and that has clocked 5800!

Fitbit just gave me 4400 steps for... a 57 minute cycle ride. Not impressed.

11,000 steps without leaving the house? You must live in a big house!
I tend to go off levels of exercise rather than steps - if i swim, gym or bike then I don't worry so much about hitting 10,000 steps a day.

Ok, so I just wanted to return to the thread and say how it challenging it is to hit 10,000 when you work in a desk based job from home. I’ve actively really tried today. I have:

Walked to the tram, then tram to the doctors and back. (I was bit early to the doctors so walked round the block).
Lunchtime walk to the supermarket and took the longer walk home.
Obviously got up from desk to make drinks, use the loo.
Went to the gym for yoga and spent 5 mins beforehand on the treadmill (at 7km/hr)
Yoga class
Realised I was on about 7,000 after yoga so did another 10 mins on the treadmill but couldn’t stay any longer.

Got home and I was on 9,200 so walked up and down my road twice like a loony.

That took me to 9,850 so I’ve since been pacing round the house, dishes and cleaning the kitchen and just hit 10,000.

To all the people 15k plus, do you have desk jobs? (Work from home). If so, give me all your tips!

About 5000 but I have a mobility impairment and that is a real challenge.

I aim for a min of 10K. On non- work days I can do far more, but on work days, I work long days and I’m desk based, so limited by time

18,000 a day average this week so far. My goal is 15,000. I don't drive and walk everywhere.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves it will be counting her wrist moving so not so much steps as movements . Mine goes up loads when I cook ( Apple Watch)