SAHM step count - Do you also run around like a headless chicken all day?

[Twopea]

I have two small kids, one in primary school and one at home. I am constantly shattered. I recently got a smart watch and realised my step count is pretty high (c. 12,000 steps per day). School run accounts for a quarter of this max. Is this an abnormally high step count for everyday life as a SAHM?

I doubt it.

I work in a job where I a, on my feet and walk 6k in the morning whilst ds swim trains.

Easy to get 22-25k steps in that way.

When I was ill at the weekend I didn't even do 2000 in a day. Mines definitely accurate 😂

This is not possible. Pictures of it didn't happen.

I wfh and if I didn't have a dog I think I'd average only about 4000 steps a day. I remember how much running around I did when DC were small, so I'm not surprised that you're covering so much ground!

I can do 25,000 in my sleep. Easily. I am very fit though.

There’s a huge difference between doing that many steps when you have an active job (and also go on an actual walk every day) and doing that many steps while working from home.

I just don’t think it’s possible to walk 10 miles a day unless you have a job when you’re on your feet all day or you’re actively going on a decent length walk.

@Twopea if you are shattered then do less running around. That’s the beauty of being at home, you can dictate how much or how little you do. No need to run around like a headless chicken with one child at home.

Yes, I do 14K average steps and I am busy most of the day. I think it would be quite hard to do 25K steps daily with a full time job and claim to not be active. Unless you run for hours before and after work it would be hard to reach 25K+.

The last day I did 25k steps, I started the day with a 5km walk, spent the next 5 hours walking round a city, then went for another 5km walk almost immediately after and then walked to go out for dinner and back.

I did 24k steps yesterday. 3.5 miles walking to a park to volunteer, and then shovelling and transporting bark chips to the other end of the park in a wheelbarrow, all day.

If I potter about the house at the weekend I do about a 1000.

@Marblessolveeverything I think you need to calibrate your tracker or get one that doesnt measure hand movements

I had one a long time back, when I was working in a factory. Two hours of dicing onions and it would show Id walked five miles

Im a waitress, four hours on a busy day in high summer, plus a 5k in the evening, plus dog walking, plus general moving about 28,000

A day in Edinburgh last week - sightseeing on foot for 6 hours - 22,000

Half a marathon 33,000

Not a mission are you getting in 25k a day

The counter on my phone seems to be pretty accurate in that it gives me one thousand steps for a ten minute purposeful but not speedy walk, which is a good rule of thumb, and only a couple of thousand if I don't leave the house all day.

The ten minute per thousand rule tells you that 10,000 steps is around an hour and a half just walking. Not surprising that a lot of people's lifestyle means that they don't manage that unless they really try, it's a lot of time to find in your day.