10k steps is easy ?

[Angels1111]

I find that if I'm doing normal day to day housework I reach 10k steps quite easily - today for example I'm already on 5k from cooking lunch, washing up, doing laundry, putting laundry away and a bit of dusting and tidying. I've still got more to do so feel like I'll easily get to my 10k without trying too hard.

If I go for a walk/gym etc I usually get to 15-20k steps.

I'm basically wondering whether I'm doing too much housework compared to the norm 😅

As I said. I was a secondary teacher on a site with buildings all over the place. Walked around classrooms and between buildings all day. Full disclosure - I was also boarding staff so did it all evening most days too. 7k. Tops.

Yes it is! Have you been one? Around the classroom repeatedly. Between. Rooms. Between buildings. Not remotely the same as standing at a desk.

As ever, Mumsnet oneupmanship going on. For various reasons, quite genuine ones, many will struggle to achieve 5k in a day. Surely all movement is good, whether that be through ironing or hiking.

And yet several posts have stated they do barely any steps so it’s clearly quite common to not walk that much as a teacher.

This is sooo a feed a family of 4 for a week on one small roast chicken thread, isn’t it? 🤣

You must have an enormous house, I have a three bed townhouse and barely clock up 2500 in a day. Even a trip to the supermarket on foot and the pub in the evening doesn’t trouble the 5k mark. That said I do not have a Fitbit or similar so it’s from my phone

You must live in a mansion without a maid bless you

I did abput 5k as a state school teacher and about 7k in boarding. Are you suggesting I’m lying?
Edit: and my point was that it isn’t that much - so 10k steps isn’t a minimal amount of moving about.

I'd have to walk an hour on top of my housework to get in 10k steps

Which bit don't you get? If I'm out walking, I do about 2,500 steps to a mile, fewer at the beginning when I'm fresh, more when I'm tired and my stride shortens.

How tall are you? I’m 5’10” and a mile is 2000 steps for me.

I feel like several years ago the aim was 20k daily, no

No it’s 50k 🙄

Same here

So you're out walking for 7 hours and covering 25+ miles. Impressive stuff.

And I eat 50g of fibre a day

Guarantee whatever you're using to track isn't correctly calibrated. My band reckons I've done 14k steps today, but that's supermarket, 2 dog walks using the car, so using the indicators etc and up and down stepladders decorating, so lots of hand movements painting, masking up etc. I don't know if it counts me using the Internet in between times! Probably.

I quit my Fitbit about 2 years ago. Instead I just focus on simply being as active as I can on an average day alongside scheduled exercise. It’s so nice to not be fixated on how many steps I’ve done. NEAT activity, and consciously building movement into my day.
When I was wearing it, my half hour of ironing was interpreted as swimming!

Me and DH did a day in London last year:

Left the house - walked 20 mins to local station.

Walked around London all day - took part in an activity session which wasnt high intensity but was active! Walked all around Victoria, Covent Garden, Leicester Square - took a tube, walked all round Camden and Islington.

One of the tubes lifts escalators were out of order - so there were signs to warn people of the steps - so about 6 floors worth of steps.

Got the train home. Walked 20 mins home.

21,000 steps on the fitbit. So I think your watch must be inaccurate.

the highest so far this month was 51,000 in a day.

Even on a full day of sightseeing or theme park trip I don’t think i’ve gone over 30k

I’m sure you are meant to set your Fitbit to your stride & wear it on your non dominant hand & set it as such. It’s more accurate then.

It wasn’t a marathon, but it did include a 40km point to point trail run. Lots of elevation gain. Lots of mud. Lots of rocky terrain. Lots of steps.

Quite happy to tell anyone more if they want to know but that sums it up.

Do you mind if we use your post in the future as the definitive example of "drip feed"? Jeez.

Like I said. Out of the ordinary so irrelevant on this thread.

Why would it be a drip feed? I said I do a lot of walking/running/steps in my first paragraph. That was the literally the point. Then in the second paragraph that I don’t get many steps when doing a full day of housework round the house even the active stuff. As a point of comparison for everyone speaking about calibration… as is the point of the thread.

I walked half a marathon recently and it was just over 30,000 steps.