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30,000 steps a day

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HowdoIgetbacktothe80s · 27/02/2023 19:35

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?

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BitOutOfPractice · 28/02/2023 16:34

@HappyHealthy23 i totally agree. My daily step count massively reduced when I swapped from a Fitbit to an Apple Watch, even though I was doing exactly the same activity. The Fitbit was very very generous with steps.

rogueone · 28/02/2023 16:36

The most I have managed is 22k and that was walking around town, to school and back , dog walk and my work outs . On average I do 14k as I WFH I have to work hard to get steps in

Wishawisha · 28/02/2023 16:58

I manage 20k most school days from a combo of school runs, errands and gym. We don’t drive during the week so it helps.

30k would be a struggle for me. I’ve done it once or twice but those days I’m walking on and off all day long and am exhausted the next day.

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lifter · 28/02/2023 16:59

I regularly hit 25-30k without effort - I walk in the mornings, most lunchtimes and evenings, and sometimes on a treadmill during work meetings.

Exercise is my main form of fun and I don't have kids which probably makes all the difference. I do wear hiking shoes these days, learned that the hard way!

Bigpinktrain · 28/02/2023 17:02

RelentlessForwardProgress · 27/02/2023 20:53

That is about 14-15 miles for me.

I've been doing the Centurion Running One Slam comp since 1st Jan and have hit that number most days according to my Garmin. For me its a 6 mile run (about an hour) and then a couple of hours of walking. So not as impossible as it sounds if you want to cover the distance. (Sometimes for me that means doing it at 10pm with a headtorch on, sometimes it means doing some kind of walking workout on Youtube.)

I think the clue is the fact that she has previously lost a huge amount of weight. As have I. The truth is it really fucks with your metabolism. In order to not put on weight, I have to eat 1400Kcals and run 6 miles. If I don't run that, or eat more than that, I put on weight. If I want to lose weight, I have to eat 1400kcals and run at least 10 miles a day. Its shit but its not going to change.

There was a study done of previous contestants on the biggest loser show that found that 5 years after weight loss, some contestants had a resting Metabolic rate of under 1000 (and some of these were tall blokes). It is a little mentioned fact that the body tries really hard to get back up there. She's probably just being honest about what it takes to maintain after a huge loss for many people.

Really interesting post!

RunningFromInsanity · 28/02/2023 17:06

28000 steps was 17.5miles for me on Sunday.

LadyVictoriaSponge · 28/02/2023 17:37

BrigitteBond · 28/02/2023 00:07

I used to walk around 7 miles (around 15,000 steps) after work every day - 6pm to 8pm every evening for years. Further at weekends.

Then I had a bit more time on my hands and upped it to 15 to 20+ miles every day.

I ended up with plantar fasciitis so I've cut it down to 10 miles a day now - 20,000 steps and it takes just under 3 hours now the PF has calmed down a bit.

So to do 20 miles would take between 5 to 6 hours per day, I presume you don’t work to be able to fit in 20 plus miles per day and further at weekends? Doing that amount everyday is newsworthy, are you Eddie Izzard?

Season0fTheWitch · 28/02/2023 17:54

I do about 25,000 a day. I don't work, have 4 kids and a spotless house so I never sit down. It's unlikely she's doing 30k while working from home unless she walks for 2-3 hours a day outside of working? When I WFH I had a treadmill desk so I got more steps in but certainly not 30k

BrigitteBond · 28/02/2023 18:30

LadyVictoriaSponge · 28/02/2023 17:37

So to do 20 miles would take between 5 to 6 hours per day, I presume you don’t work to be able to fit in 20 plus miles per day and further at weekends? Doing that amount everyday is newsworthy, are you Eddie Izzard?

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No, not working for the last couple of years and the first year I treated 'going for a walk' like it was a full time job. I probably went a bit over the top with it.

mrstea301 · 28/02/2023 19:10

A girl I used to work with used to regularly hit these steps, but she had a horse so she'd be up at 4am and away to kick out her horse etc, so she would regularly be at about 9-10k by 9am. Then she would go out for a walk at lunchtime to.

I was NOT popular when I added her to our challenge, it just disheartened everyone else! 😂

Minieggbrownies · 28/02/2023 19:17

I've always wondered how people do these kind of steps when they claim to.

Even when I walk to and from school 1.5 miles, and spend all day doing housework I still only do 13000.

friedeg · 28/02/2023 19:28

It would be an all day hike (with stops) for me to clock up 30 000 + steps. I'm not sure it would be good for you either on a daily basis.

friedeg · 28/02/2023 19:29

And you'd wear your hiking boots out quickly

MirandaWest · 02/03/2023 12:37

Yesterday I did just over 22,000 steps.

This was mostly made up of 4.5km run before work, 4.5km walk at lunchtime and 4.5km while DD had a singing lesson.

MirandaWest · 02/03/2023 12:39

And that was about 2 hours worth of movement.

InTheFutilityRoomEatingBiscuits · 02/03/2023 12:51

An all day hike for me is 45,000-65,000 steps.

42-45,000 works out at around 30-32km with my stride, and I do that when I’m hiking as part of a multi day trek or holiday and have to do it again the next day. 60-65,000 is a marathon distance, between 42-44km. I try not to walk that far unless I can rest the next day.

I do fewer steps when I run distances than when I walk, although I have never run further than about 10-12km. And I will tend to hike/walk over more challenging terrain than I’d attempt when running. You take more steps when it’s trickier underfoot and walk “around” the path a lot if it’s rocky, steep, muddy, getting over gates etc, so a rocky, steep, hill walk will bring in a higher step count than a flat paved towpath or park over the same distance. So my highest step count days are always hiking days.

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