Fitbit owners. Do you always hit 10k steps and how easily?

[Thethingswedoforlove]

I find obv easy on a day I run or go to work. But days like today which are wet and nothing partic planned it is much harder. How do others find it?

[ChampagneTastes]

I got the cheaper fitbit that you attach to your bra and apparently it is much more accurate than many on the market. I rarely make more than 6k on working days but have easily done 10k over the holidays what with trips to the park and a workout DVD each day.

I'm determined to keep at 10k a day for at least a month, regardless of work as I want to not look terrible in a swimsuit in July!

[Ifyoubuildit]

I hit 10k most days, have only missed three days since I got it for Christmas. I walk for about 30 mins as part of my commute and I think that's what does it on weekdays. At weekends its planned exercise and running around after the DCs.

[Thethingswedoforlove]

I am feeling good today as have done my run so at over 9k steps already with a trip to the beach in this afternoon!!

[Thethingswedoforlove]

It has to be glad good thing for the health of all people that we are all becoming competitive with ourselves! I see it a bit like having a dog- I need to get out for a walk come rain or shine these days! Though a Fitbit is not as good a companion as a dog j suppose!

[Clankboing]

I always hit 10-12k at work. I'm a teacher. Weekends I sometimes miss it but mostly hit it. Today did 13400! :-)

[Thethingswedoforlove]

I think I will feel v disappointed on the first day I dont hit 10k! But so many days require quite a bit of additional effort so it is going to happen!!

[YesThisIsMe]

On days when I only go to work and back I rack up about 6,000 steps. About 8 minutes to the tube, 8 minutes from tube to work, then the same in reverse is about 5,000 steps in total and another 1,000 toddling around at work and home. But if I do a school run on top of that, or some shopping, or we walk back from school instead of catching an overcrowded bus, then I can do 10,000 without really trying. Average this month is 8,500.

[colleysmill]

Ah now clearly you need to master The Bob as it is known in our house. Every ad break, cleaning teeth, spare moment I Bob up and down on the spot.

Some days especially work days it's the only way I can get anywhere near 7k. Non work days I easily hit over 10k and days I run and do the school run it can be anything from 12k upwards

[swampytiggaa]

Term time I easily rack up 20k+ mon-friday. Weekends a bit harder but try for 10-14k minimum.

Most I have done in a day are 55k which was for a challenge. Regularly hit 30k or thereabouts.

I walk everywhere and tend to find the long way round if possible.

[Lighteningirll]

I wear mine on my left non dominant wrist if I wear it on my right wrist it registers all sorts of things as steps (drinking tea uses five to ten). It definitely makes me do more, my morning housework/garden routine uses eighteen hundred.

[Thethingswedoforlove]

What is it About my Fitbit use that is taking Up all my data? I have switched off all day sync.could it be text notifications? I have gone from always just using one third of my 3gb data allowance to wiping out the whole thing in a week?

[7Days]

Well there is always a big spike in activity in the mornings getting ready to leave the house.
My children are still small soeven a day at home I will be up and town wiping noses, fetching water, putting shoes back on. It adds up and even just a little ten minute walk once or twice a day adds up more than you'd think.

[juneybean]

Sometimes if its a windy day it can make your daily floors go up (obviously only if you go out in the wind!)

[BlueCowWonders]

I've had a Fitbit for 6 weeks (lent ) and have only missed 10k twice. Usually clock up 15k or more. And usually more than 40 floors.
but am a bit worried about what PP said about dominant hand as that's where I wear it...

[Thethingswedoforlove]

7days. How easy is it to hit your 10k? Are you monitoring and trying to get it or are you just surprised when it tells you you have already completed it? I have now hit it for today but have been trying hard!

[7Days]

Im a SAHM at present and always meet it. Once it said I went upstairs 54times in a day! Ok I went up and down all day but I sometimes wonder if mine is working too

[Thethingswedoforlove]

The Fitbit says that the American heart association recommends 10k steps per day. I don't know why that rather than other quantities but is a round number and is quite hard but relatively achievable with some effort. So all in all feels like a good number. I still have nearly 3k steps to do today and I have already done my run!!! Agh!

[Rollergirlskates]

I do 10k easily on weekdays - walk to station, walk from station to work and back again. Pop out to get sandwich at lunch. If I go to the gym too I can easily do 15k per day.

Weekends I can do 20k steps per day and have done as much as 30k in one day. I am quite sporty though and do cycling (which counts as steps), and look after a horse so am on my feet a lot.

[Rinceoir]

Stealth- I work in a hospital and am generally walking between wards/clinics all day. I do a ward round in the morning and then visit other wards/clinics in the afternoon. Sometimes I'm on a cardiac arrest team so I have to sprint across the site. The everyday steps build up easily that way. So often I get up at 6, go for a run (5-6k steps), walk to bus stop (2k), walk from bus stop to hospital (1k), walk about at work (5-10k depending on day), and then go home the same way (3k). If I am doing the nursery pick up or drop off my walks to and from bus stops go up to 8k steps. So during the week I'm very active even if I don't go for a run. Today I'm taking it easy- walked to shops and otherwise pottering at home so I'll probably only hit 6k steps or so.

[slightlyglitterbrained]

Apparently fairly arbitrary Hermione - sounds better than 8k steps?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33154510

[juneybean]

nope I'm useless, I did 4k yesterday! I probably do 10k once a week, really need to work on that...!

[stealthbanana]

I rarely do and am wondering how others do it so easily. I walk from home to work sometimes - it is just over 2 miles and it takes me 50mins and it is c 6-7k steps. So if I take the tube to work I don't get anywhere near 10k. I am on holidays at the moment and hiked up a large mountain yesterday and it was only 12k steps.

So am at how many people are walking 1.5-2hrs a day. How much are you walking to do 15k+ in a day? For those of you who do the "school run" are you actually spending 90mins trailing through fields each way? I don't get it.

I don't have a Fitbit but use my phone.

[HermioneWeasley]

I have an office job (but it's a BIG building) so I average about 6000 steps when I'm in work. At weekends it varies wildly but if I go for a walk I can usually hit 10k.

Does anyone know where the 10,000 steps thing comes from?

[Thethingswedoforlove]

Interesting re the mobile our! Thanks !

[Rinceoir]

I'm using a pedometer app, and I don't carry my phone constantly but my daily average is 12500 steps. Varies a lot though- on a work day I hit 10k by early afternoon (walk to bus, walk from bus, walking constantly at work) so will often hit 15-20k if I exercise as well. On a weekend day it can be that if I'm out and about, or just a few thousand if I'm not exercising and taking it easy. I do try to hit my target of 11500 per day though.