It's interesting to see how the people responding generally seem to be the ones who are clocking up loads of steps every day.
I'm disabled, most days I hobble along painfully, swearing under my breath and leaning heavily on two sticks, only walking between my bed the toilet/bathroom, the kitchen and a comfy chair in the living room. I have to pee a lot, so the vast majority of my steps are taken getting too and from the toilet every 60 - 90 minutes.
I got a Samsung smart watch a year ago, to monitor my sleep quality (and how many times I was getting up to wee), and the cursed thing insists on registering my steps, keeping a record of them and confronting me with them when I check the app on my phone to see how I slept the night before. I just checked and it tells me that last week I averaged 3090 steps/day.
The comforting (and somewhat mind boggling considering the number of steps people on this thread are doing) thing is that the watch also tells me the average number of steps being taken by all the other people in my age group (I'm 67) is only 3822, putting me in quite a respectable position considering my knackered and treacherous legs. Even more surprisingly, it also reports that the average number of steps of ALL the people having their steps registered/being spied on by Samsung last week was 3978!
Since that last number must include all the super healthy 13000 - 25000 steps a day types who have posted on this thread it's astounding that someone who is unable to walk 20m without needing a longish period of recuperation is less than a thousand steps behind the majority.
So anyone feeling miserable because they haven't managed to hit their target of 6000 steps (that's what the watch tells me I should be doing) can take consolation from knowing that they are not alone, seems the rest of the smart watch wearing world isn't finding a lot of time and energy for getting their steps in.
Perhaps Amazon warehouse workers and nurses on busy wards don't have Samsung spying on their every step, or the vast majority of the people wearing these watches spend more time in their car or at a desk than striding around? It's also possible they get their exercise in snazzy gyms and swimming pools.
I've got a shopping trolley that doubles as a walking frame and emergency chair, which has recently enabled me to leave the house and shuffle along the pavement. Annoyingly the sodding watch does not count this as walking, because my my hands are clinging on to the handle of the trolley, as I lean my weight onto it and push it ahead of me while concentrating on moving my legs like a normal person instead of dragging one behind me like Quasimodo. Since my arms are locked to the trolley handle and not swinging at every step the watch doesn't register that I am taking steps.
I tried to get it to log my pavement shuffling as "exercise" but it automatically cuts out after a few seconds of what it considers "inaction" despite my pushing myself to the limit with my gait training/not falling over. In the past month I've managed to shave 8 minutes off the time it takes me to walk a 400m circuit of the block, from 27m 40s to 19m 52s, but the watch is oblivious to my exertions. I asked my neighbour to time herself doing the same walk at an unhurried pace, to give me an idea of how long it would take a normal person, and she says she sauntered round in 6m 32s. I've set doing it in less than 10 minutes as my goal for this year.