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 😅

In your first post you said:

I track my steps. I average 17,000 a day and the highest so far this month was 51,000 in a day.
I only get about 4,000 steps or so from a whole day of housework and that’s if I’m doing loads like gardening work, big clear outs and lots of labour intensive batch cooking.

No mention of running there. We're responding to the implication that you did 50000+ steps walking - like others are talking about on this thread. Good for you, you did something extraordinary and you're an accomplished athlete, but its not relevant to the discussion here. IMO, of course.

The thread is about normal step counts. Your ridiculous massive number done in a way the majority couldn’t access is irrelevant and boasty.

It wasn’t a marathon, but it did include a 40km point to point trail run

lol!

If your wearing it on your wrist try some knitting that really gets your steps up.

Nope. 10k was a marketing gimmick, and 8k is considered more accurate. But 4k is also considered beneficial if done at a reasonable pace.

I’ve cleaned my whole townhouse today 3700 steps Fitbit on ankle. I then had to dance to 18 tracks of music to get to 10000.

I regularly average around 7k steps a day just doing housework. My house is small but the layout is a bit weird so yes there is more walking involved that in a well designed house i guess.

my step count has remained consistent with fitbit, garmin and a cheapo one I got at Argos recently - it's about 1,000 steps for every 10 mins.

I haven't noticed the wrist action overcounting thing - the only way my kids could get false steps in was by taking my watch off and swinging it around in the air wildly. All the devices i've used have consistently undercounted steps when I'm tidying up upstairs for some reason - walking on carpet, around a small area. I've never ben able to work out why.

1000 steps per 10 mins ai about right. But I don’t see how you are doing so many in a small house.

Because rather than amounting to 1/2 mile those 1000 steps of housework probably total half that, or less.

If you feel this way fine. I’m a normal person with a normal life, kids, a job, hobbies. Talking about the difference between indoor and outdoors step counts on a thread about steps counts. And people asked me to explain more, so I did. Never mind. My apologies to the OP if my comments caused any ire.

No, I think 10k steps is quite typical for a normal amount of walking around assuming you aren’t sedentary 8 hours a day at a desk. I’m not currently working (so not sat at a desk), but I do have advanced cancer, so am not out exercising either. I generally hit 10k steps most days with a little bit of a dog walk and walking around the house, going to Tesco, etc. Days when I end up in bed for a good bit of the day, I’ll only hit 6-8,000 though.

I think your comment was more relevant than some others on this thread?!!!

It was obvious to me that you were simply trying to show a comparison for the OP so that she can see her watch may not be reading correctly.

I was going to post something similar!

I wear a Garmin and today it says I did 23k steps but that included a 14km run.

Whenever I’ve hit +50k steps it’s when I’ve ran a marathon - never been anywhere close otherwise, not even traipsing round Disney World.

I doubt the OP is hitting in excess of 20k steps just doing housework…….

I’ve just been investigating the fitness app on my phone after reading some of the replies here - I didn’t realise the phone could also track steps!

Anyway, looks like the step count on the phone is consistently around 1.5 - 2k lower than the step count on my Fitbit.

Some of that might be explained by me walking around the house when the phone’s charging on a counter, but I suspect most of it will be the Fitbit overcounting steps.

I can remember occasions when the Fitbit’s buzzed to congratulate me on reaching 10k steps when I’ve been halfway though a long car journey!

My phone count is less than half that of my Apple Watch, but that’s because I don’t carry my phone around with me at home.

Just counted some steps at home today. I went from the bathroom, through my first floor landing, walked downstairs = 26 steps = zero steps counted by my fitness tracker

Just been for a walk in the local hills = approx 1 hour = just under 6,000 steps

Oh that's interesting! I find cleaning much more tiring than walking to be honest. Yesterday I did around 6k "steps" doing housework and 6k actual steps on a one hour walk. I could much more easily walk 2 hours than do 2 hours housework. So I've decided to count the "steps" as movement.

I wish I had the energy to clean my house from top to bottom every week or help my parents out like that. :(

I did a 50km challenge last year - 76k steps, took 9 hours, my personal best!