To think that 10,000 steps is a lot?

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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?

Churchthecat yes I totally do that to make it up to the next thousand!

Well I'm going to go for an hour's brisk walk and will report back later on my step count

It's surprisingly much. I work in an office so I barely get 1000 steps at work. I cycle to work and go to the gym. I can only get the steps if I especially go for walk or down other excercise like foorball. If I walk to work then I can barely get to 10k.

If I was getting 6 or 7k from just being at home I’d take my Fitbit off for doing the washing and cooking, that’s ridiculous.

I commute via public transport and walk to and from stations, I also go out every day and buy lunch so on a working day I couldn’t get under about 7.5k but to get 10k I have to do something extra, which I try to most days. Do a lunch time walk, make an excuse to pop out in the evening to post a letter and walk much further than I need etc.

I’m on mat leave now waiting for baby and trying to hit 12k a day (to make the baby come) and that requires two decent length walks of 40 mins + each as well as random at home jobs.

would do 2,000 by 8am just making breakfast and get ready in the morning

I’ve been in bed most of today with horrific period cramps and still done 7.3k getting up putting washing on etc. Yes we have a big house but I can’t imagine that really makes much of a difference?

when i am sick (hungover) and only move from the sofa to go to the
loo, i do about 4,000

Where do you people live? Or don't you even have a loo in the house?

I easily do 10,000 steps a day, just pottering round the house first thing is 1,000.

I wouldn't go to bed till I'd done at least 10,000.

Does anyone else end up thinking they have to beat the Fitbit and end up doing laps around the bedroom at 10pm if they're on 9980?

Ahem...

This thread is just proving to me how inaccurate these pedometer things actually are!

^^this. I've done 12k today but I went shopping and for a 4 mile walk. 2k getting ready for work...? I doubt it. I have registered as low as 1.5k on days where I have done little and stayed in the house. Work is 3-11k dependent on if I drive or take the train (and walk 1.5 miles to the station and also the other end)

But 2k really isn't much op you need to up your game there

I'd have to try really hard to do as little as 2,000. Like pretty much not get out of bed.

One day I worked at home and did 76 :( to be fair i did probably walk about the house more than that but my phone was on my desk...

I don't carry my phone around at home but I always log over 6K steps from walking XingDog. Plus Pilates 2x weekly, and any shopping I have to do means I reckon that I probably top 10k most days. Today I've recorded only 7.1k although I've climbed more stairs/ascended more hills, than other days this week when I hit 11k or 12k by lunchtime.

It's an hour and a half of walking. It is absolutely NOT a lot.

I know pushing a trolley or buggy wouldn't count. I put my fitbit on my ankle when pushing the buggy. Would walk 10 - 20 counted steps and check the number and it was accurate. So I'd walk for an hour plus briskly (good exercise really, heart rate up a bit, slightly heavier breathing and I'm tall so stride length adds distance) and would do 5000k at most.

If your clocking thousands pootling round the house it just definitely isn't accurate.

Whoever got 7000k gardening it's not surprising. Moving your arm is what counts. You can sit on your arse digging with a trowel and it'll register steps.

People walking 5 mins to school and round their office getting 10000+ are hilarious

I live in a tiny house and often WFH doing a desk job. At the end of a working day my steps can sometimes be measured in the low hundreds, because the only place I have walked its the kitchen or the loo!

I have a garmin watch and previously had a fitbit. A few days I wore both an experiment and the fitbit recorded several thousand more steps than the garmin. The garmin doesn’t record loads extra for doing the hoovering for example.

When I was working FT I’d easily do 10k steps. Half hour walk to work, our for a 30-45min walk at lunchtime and 30min walk home would get me there easily. Now that I’m on maternity leave I’m doing well if I do 5k a day.

I only hit the 10000 mark when my stupid fitbit counted steps when I was driving!
Unfortunately the reality is 400 to 2000 on average
I do work however office based and I enjoy sitting

I did 3000 today- that was going shopping and out to lunch. But the shopping was a huge TKMaxx and we went up and down and round about a million times....

I have an iwatch.
It isn’t reliable as more than a general guide- and I suspect most peoples arent.
Today I went for a 2 hour countryside walk this morning, and worked (moving around almost constantly) for 2 hours this afternoon add to that usual housework and running around after a pre schooler.

It’s registered 5,500 steps. So only a little more than a pp who has just gone from bed to loo. Or in fact it’s just a big con and they don’t work very well!?

Just sat on settee moving arm up and down and Apple Watch didn’t record any extra steps so it must only work when walking

churchthecat Me & DH stayed at a hotel last night after watching football. Not much walking apart from to/from the car (about 15 mins each way) and mooching around at the services. His count is set to 6000. He was on about 5900 by the time we were going to bed so he sat on the edge of the bed swinging his arm to hit his target, which just shows how inaccurate these things are.

Well I take that back it has added 40 steps to my total, must be a slight delay on it

A lot of people have them set up incorrectly in terms of dominant arm, which makes a huge difference.

It does also matter a bit how tall you are. I realised that my 5'2 friend got loads more steps than me (5'10) when we were walking together but when I actually looked at her that was fair, she was taking two steps for every stride of mine!

Can you tell what my days off work are? 😂

I measure on my phone. I walk an hour in the morning up to school and down to the station - around 4K steps. I simply don’t understand this “I do 4K going to the loo”. What does the Fitbit measure? To get to 10k per day I need to do the school run, station, 20 minute walk at lunch, and a 20 minute Walk home in the evening. I did read the steps ambling around the house/office are largely useless. They need to be purposeful. Or something.