Friend not accepting she’s NOT doing 28,000 steps per day

[CyclingAddict]

Just can’t convince her! Showed her that her app is picking up arm movement ..got her to move her arm whilst seated 😳 but she still insists she’s nearly up to 30,000 every day!

Just read on here that someone is doing 10,000 steps per day but this is really hard to achieve!

How do people squeeze it in alongside work/parenting/household stuff? I manage 5,000 steps in an active role ..nowhere near the recommended 🤨

Why on earth do you care if she's wrong or not?!

Both your steps must be wrong. You are under-recording and she is over-recording

I’ve sat at my desk nearly all day today, did about 30 mins house work this morning but haven’t been out anywhere and I’ve done 5379. I have an oura and it’s v accurate.

Well, that one is. That's not really the norm. I think most people, if they had a watch that recorded zero steps over 7km on foot, would realise, and they wouldn't sell very well.

I did 30k last weekend but did a big walk with my walking group, then another couple of hours in evening. What is she doing for this 30k?

5,000 steps = 2.5 miles 45 minutes
10,000 steps = 5 miles 1.5 hours
28,000 steps = 14 miles 4.5 hours

My friend is a dog walker and walks around 10 hours a day. He's at 28 000!

Regularly do 25k steps a day but I walk my dog 4-6 miles a day, train 5-6 times a week in the gym and have a very active job, constantly moving stock, barrels etc.

I do between 10-12k a day on a normal day. I've hit 1500 before I get to my desk running around dropping DC at their respective childcare. Walk at lunch (25 mins) and a walk after work (40 mins) and walking between offices/buildings etc. I would have to have a really lazy day to only reach 5k! I am confident that mine is fairly close to being right as it correlates with distance walked.

I get 20-25k a day but make a big effort to get that. An hour walk in the morning and again at evening, 45 minutes at lunch. Sometimes running on top of that

I'm averaging around 8000 per day so far this month, and that's with an hour's dog walk most days and just general pottering in the house and garden. I'll hit 10k today as we took a slightly longer route with the dogs.

Worked in a supermarket a few years ago, and with the mile walk there I was usually hitting 10k a couple of hours into my shift (our warehouse was upstairs and I always seemed to be popping up there to find things for customers!)

The most I have ever done in day was over 38K; that was delivering election leaflets inn my village. It's very hilly and most houses had steps up or down to their door or long drives. I slept well that night and it has only increased my respect for our local posties!

I have an Apple watch now and it seems pretty accurate, but my previous FitBit did register my arm movements when crocheting; I had to take it off or it completely messed up my actual steps being recorded.

10k would be the school run and dog walk (big field he runs around in) plus 1 trip to the nearest supermarket. Work is normally 9k for a 6 hour shift ( more if I'm not cashing up). Even today my day off dog not here, no school run I've done 7k just by going to the supermarket and getting the bus for a meeting at school. I use both my phone and watch to count steps and they usually tally.

How does an apple watch record steps if it's on your arm!!

Why does she need to “accept it”?

Does it really matter?

This is last super active day so maybe 5 miles of dog walks, heavy training session and a really hectic work shift for 7 hours

2000 steps should be somewhere between 1 and 1.5 km. A slow walk is 3km per hour. Unless you're not walking steadily for 45 minutes, or you walk very slowly indeed, your watch must be under recording.

I live in London. 1km walk to tube. 0.5km walk from tube to DS’s school. 0.5km walk back to tube. 0.5km walk tube to office. Do that in reverse at the end of the day. Plus of course walking around the office during the day, and the house in the morning getting ready, and around the tube stations. Generally gets me to 10,000 - just!

Or I can do a 7km run and that gets me comfortably over 10K steps.

I feel that 5000 steps is VERY. sedentary.
Im housebound, can’t stand for any length of time and I can clock 2000 steps just making a cup of tea and going to the loo.

@CyclingAddict your watch is clearly understating how much you do.
I suspect your friend’s watch is overstating it. But she is, at least, always active.

We have a boat and when you go on it in quite choppy seas it can register thousands of steps without you moving off your arse!

So you have a faulty tracker
doesn't apply to all!

Definitely depends how tall you are- my wife is four inches taller than me, so when we go on a long walk together I do more steps, because my stride is shorter. I do about 10,000 steps for every 9000 of hers.

I used to have a Fitbit and would regularly get 10,000 steps a day without too much effort, as it would award me steps for things like doing the washing up and driving the car.
I now have a much stricter cheap generic fitness tracker which only counts steps if I'm actually walking purposefully. I don't get 10,000 unless I "go for a walk". Just pottering won't do it, whereas with a Fitbit it did.

It's very easy to do 10k on just school runs alone. 15k with everything else in the day.

And if its a cardio day then more than that.

You either have a faulty tracker or you're much less active than you think. I do 5000 on a WFH day. I can hit 10k easily by walking from the car park to the office and having a walk in my lunch break.

I went on a short walk of just over a mile earlier today, and my Fitbit recorded 2540 steps for that. So if 2.5k steps = 1 mile, then your friend would be walking in the region of 11 - 12 miles a day if her tracker was accurate. Not likely, if she’s working in a smallish space.

Although I’m not entirely sure how accurate my Fitbit is. I’ve also got the Apple Health app on my phone, which also estimates my steps, and my average steps on the Apple Health app tend to be consistently around 3k lower than my average steps on the Fitbit.
Admittedly I’m not carrying my phone around 100% of the time at home, but even taking that into account, a 3k difference is too big for me to believe that both of them are accurately recording my steps!

And I’d second other pp’s in saying that your device sounds like it’s under-recording your steps.