To think that 10,000 steps is a lot?

[Bluebelliphant]

I have been feeling quite pleased with myself as I've been easily smashing the recommended step amount of 2,000.

However I've just found out it's in fact 10,000. That seems a lot?

Do others manage that every day?

Go for 3 brisk 30 minutes walk each day and job done

Research has shown that 3 x 10 min brisk walks a day are more beneficial that 10,000 steps

*Phone doesn't register steps immediately (until about 10 in i think). If it didn't I imagine just standing up might register as steps, or even shifting to scratch you arse you've been sat on!!)

I knew this thread would be full of people saying it's not much. They do that in their sleep blah blah blah...

So, yesterday I went to m and s food shopping. Not a big store, was in there 45 mins, probably about 10 standing at till, I did some housework but phone on desk, then I went to Sainsburys for an hour and 3quarters, but store, lots of walking. I then out shopping away, but of gardening, cooking, laundry in and out and upstairs putting away etc. Nipped out to wicke s later n evening. Total steps for the day, about 3500. Maybe add in a few hundred for the morning housework. I have my target set for 6k, I only meet it if I am deliberately going for a walk. During the week at work, I struggle to get 2k unless I go for a walk. I try to park further from the office but I don't have time for a walk at lunch.

Whether it’s a con or not, my Fitbit has definitely improved my fitness, and got me running.

I probably do about 3000 if I'm working and make little effort to do anything else, but I try to go for a lunchtime walk so it's rarely actually that low. Most other days it's 10000 or over.

I do get close to 1000 before leaving the house in the morning, so I can see how that's realistic with a combination of lots of stairs and not being very organised. Down 2 flights of stairs to shower, back up to fetch forgotten towel, back down to actually shower, back up to get dressed. Down 2 to get breakfast, back up 2 to gather washing, down to put wash on, up 1 to rouse children, down to have breakfast. Garden also up steps so more to hang washing out and then a final run up and down gathering all the clothes/ books/ homework everyone has forgotten.

However I do think there is huge variation between different trackers, DS had a cheap and cheerful one and would find he was doing thousands of steps in the car, or typing. Mine only registers when I'm actually walking.

My phone records about 4k on work days. Which is fine as i only have it on me for school run/going to work ,break ,lunch and walk back. Fit bit i do about 7-8k and then have to push to get to 10k. Some days are busier and manage easily(especially if DD has an after school club and i walk home and then back to get her).

Weekends some days I don't even reach 1k on either unless we're out and about somewhere.

@sharpkat fair play to you . That would certainly get your steps up . A 3 hour walk a day is phenomenal. I am happy to get 30 mins .

Oh and I'm in a one bedroom flat,unless I start running around the livingroom like an idiot there's no way I'm getting 2k just going to the loo or whatever.

I do circa 400 steps to our school 5 mins away - both ways it’s around 800.

I average 4k which is not good but considering that up until recently I wasn't able to walk for longer than ten minutes at a time without a lot of pain then I suppose it could be worse! The only times I've got 10k is when I've walk to town and back which is about 8km round trip - I have to do that today to go to physiotherapy so I'll at least get my steps in today.

8 year old DD on the other hand averages 12k

Oh but I did get 12k one day when I put my activity watch to charge and I guess the cat must have been batting it because when I came back an hour later to put it back on it had racked up 12k steps!

I do around 15k a day during the week. I have an active non desk based job.

2k seems like very little to me.

I only reach 10,000 if I've spent all day walking. Admittedly I use my phone more often than not and because I don't carry it around when I'm doing housework, I am not counting all the walking. But even do, 10,000 is a full day's activity for me do I think it's quite a lot to get to if you don't have a long school run or have a desk based job or live close to the shops. You'd have to make a specific effort to hit the target rather than just doing it in the normal course of your day.

Last Sunday! 😄

Please read my previous post and google the myth of the 10K steps.

This was a random figure dreamed up by the Japanese inventors of a pedometer.

DD's steps on the day we put up the trampoline

I’m a nurse and did 18,000 steps yesterday (just checked!). That’s pretty good.

@ivykaty44 oh I missed that, thanks for the info. Might be time to retire my fitbit and rely solely on my Garmin!!

This is mindblowing. Our school run is 15 mins round trip and I get less than 2000 steps from that. If I potter around the house all day I would only get about 1000. Getting ready in the morning barely gets me to 500 steps and we have a pretty big house. I can only conclude some people take tiny fairy steps so it takes them so many more to get any where.

I actually struggle to hit 10k. I drive a lot for my job which means i don't get to walk much. I have to go for a walk in the evening to stand any chance of hitting 10k.

2000 was never a recommended amount! 10k is, and isn't too difficult if you manage a few small walks a day, take stairs instead of lifts etc. On a day where I'm fairly sedentary I'd get around 8000. Good luck!

I average 12000 doing the nursery/school/local shop runs.

I’ve got a Fitbit. I haven’t done anything but go to the loo since midnight last night as I laze in bed knowing I must get up, however it is registering 107 steps!

I'm in a one bedroom flat
It does help to be in a 4 floor house!

On a non-working day I usually do over 10,000 with the school run, going about the house and getting out the house with the baby. I don't drive though so walk most places.

Trying to lose weight so to build my fitness I've been aiming to walk over 15,000 steps every non-working day which for means I have to plan to walk somewhere further than I usually would.