30,000 steps a day

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My dh cousin has been on a weight loss journey for the last few years and has done so well and lost an extremely huge amount of weight and has kept it off. She documents everything on her SM pages to help encourage others on the diet she follows.
She has recently started to show how many steps she covers per day and on average it’s shows around 25000 - 30000 per day.
I was quite taken a back by this. I see myself as quite active. I have a dog a walk him 3 times a day with a very long walk in the afternoon and have a treadmill which I use every other day but I’ve never hit that kind of figure before (maybe I’m not walking as much as I think lol).
She doesn’t have a treadmill and wfh full time so god only knows when she is fitting these long walks in?
How many miles do you think you would cover with 30000 steps per day? How many do you do?

I managed to do 30,000 last year. It was on a five hour walk

That's about 18-19km. So she's either lying or she's walking 2.5 hours a day

According to my Fitbit 10k steps is around 5 miles. Hard to do 15 miles a day?!

Fitbit on the dog.

What does she work as?

I can do 30000 on a really active day at the weekend, but that would involve a good few hours walk.

If I do a 2 hour walk plus my usual activity, that nornally gets me about 15000.

But on a day to day basis, with work, I struggle to hit 5000.

I don't know where people have the time.

I used to do 25-30k steps per day. I have a desk job but was running 10k minimum every morning and going for a 40 min walk at lunchtime. Often going to the gym in the evening too. Was training for a half marathon.

Depends on her job, I used to do 15k steps in a day at work when I worked in a hospital. Also a lot of people march on the spot when watching Tv etc. if she wfh she might be doing that during meetings too with camera off.

Could it just be running?

I'd be querying what she's using to track her steps because it doesn't sound remotely accurate. Sounds like she's wearing a cheap tracker that counts every keystroke she makes on her phone or laptop as a step. There is absolutely no way she can be doing 25-30000 steps a day whilst WFH.

I ran 25km at weekend and it was about 30,000 steps. I can hit 15k on a work day by working just over 2 miles each way to work, a short walk at lunch and steps around the office and home, but I have a fulltime
desk job.

Me and my husband can both to this on the days we're on shift (both nurses) then if we do a 7-10km run afterwards.
But that is needing to do both. It would be massive amount if wfh. Unless she has one of them walking machines at her desk she uses?

I walked roughly 4.5 miles Friday and that was 13,000 steps.

That’s a fucktonne of steps! Unrealistic everyday.

I reach 30k steps maybe 5-6x/year. It usually involves being on my feet solid moving for 5-6 hours.

I reached 30k steps yesterday. But that’s because my Apple Watch was counting the arm movements as steps when I was crocheting

I once, well recently - perhaps in the past more often, did over 20,000 and was beyond knackered. We walked for hours around Central London. I’m fairly fit but my feet had enough (no blisters, just sheer amout of walking).

My friend hits those kinds of steps. But she's a cleaner on a massive port so doesn't stop all day.

It's really funny when I bring her into a Fitbit step challenge against our champion. I don't see how you could hit those kinds of steps wfh. It's like a 2 1/2 - 3 hr walk for me

Last week I did a 14mile walk, 5 hours, 30000steps.

Maximum I've ever done is 27,000 steps in a day and that was at Disney Florida walking round all day and I nearly passed out from tiredness. Couldn't sleep that night cos I had heartbeats in my feet!

I have no idea how she's doing it, if she works alongside?

I upped my steps by giving my partner a hand job.

I averaged 28k when I was training for an ultramarathon...so I'm guessing she's not being truthful or she's running 10-20 miles regularly

4 1/2 hrs rather. 10.000 per 1 1/2 hours.

All this competitive step stuff wrecks my head, sorry folks.

I know one thing, everyone is different, and steps and a goal work for some, running, treadmill, gym etc. or a combo works for others.

30k steps a day is doable, but bloody boring every single day if you ask me, but then again most exercise is bloody boring over a long period. Short bursts fine, long three/four hour stints not. To me anyway.

Since I am OLD now well past 60 I am delighted to be able to do 5k walk every day except Sunday, my day of rest. Thats about 6k steps or so. I carry 5-6 kg in a backpack too when walking and lift cans of beans for my bingo wings for some minutes every evening.

I still get fkn leg cramps at night though and they are bloody awful, so painful. Had the veins checked and so on, can't find a cause so if anyone has any tips apart from toxic quinine I'd be delighted to hear. Probably my bloody age aaargh.

Walkers on the Camino de Santiago would not do that amount of walking per day, unless they are the competitive type who don't smell the roses much.

I get 1500 grating cheese. It's a funny gizmo.