I do roughly 140 steps per minute walking at a brisk pace. For 10,000 steps that means 72 minutes of fast walking. I get that every day just walking my dog.
Just sayin'
I do roughly 140 steps per minute walking at a brisk pace. For 10,000 steps that means 72 minutes of fast walking. I get that every day just walking my dog.
Just sayin'
My two kids, ages 9 and 7, did this for a while. We were worried about their inactivity, so we monitored them for two months (they loved it). Just walking to school and playing each day they averaged about 12,000 steps a day. Clearly, they are more active when playing than we thought.It was on a "FitBit"...and I believe it was calibrated correctly. Just saying--10,000 doesn't seem that hard to hit.
There is also a difference in running stride length vs. walking stride length. 10,000 steps running maybe around 9 miles, but think about how much longer a running stride is vs. a stride walking.
iflyboats wrote:
Fitness has nothing to do with the number of steps taken per day. 30 minutes of high intensity weight training per week is much more beneficial than walking 70,000 steps in the same period. Alone, walking 10,000 steps per day is probably of no value.
this guy is an idiot
too mucho for mi amigo
no way wrote:
iflyboats wrote:Fitness has nothing to do with the number of steps taken per day. 30 minutes of high intensity weight training per week is much more beneficial than walking 70,000 steps in the same period. Alone, walking 10,000 steps per day is probably of no value.
this guy is an idiot
He's right about one thing, though. 30 minutes of high intensity weight training is DEFINITELY much more beneficial than walking 70,000 steps in the same period.
70,000 steps in 30 minutes is 2,333 steps per minute. Without any doubt such a cadence would result in your legs being ripped from your torso - Not pleasant no matter how you look at it and definitely less beneficial than the 30 minutes of weight training.
10,000 steps for fit people don't afford the training effect. They are useless. This crackpotism is akin to the requirement that one drink 64 oz a day. Being on one's feet might marginally benefit Fat America--a new, large country I just created.
2000 steps is approximately (or a little more than) a mile.
If people really want to get serious they should get a job at one of those box store hardware places. I was at Menard's the other day, and had to ask a guy where something was located. He walked me what seemed like several football fields to find what I needed.
I mentioned how far he must walk in a day. Long story short, he said he has an app that measures his distance walked each day. According to him, he averages 12 miles per workday, lost 40 pounds when he started working there, and on Black Friday last year he covered over 20 miles in single shift. In our mechanized society, people just don't have to walk much anymore.
I'm a JV girl and I routinely get 16,000-20,000 steps on my garmin from 32-38 mpw. No way 9 miles only gets you 5,400 steps.
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I'm a JV girl and I routinely get 16,000-20,000 steps on my garmin from 32-38 mpw. No way 9 miles only gets you 5,400 steps.
An efficient runner is ~180/minute. Let's take 7:00 pace as a round number.
63 X 180 = 11,340. 5,400 seems low to me too.
My wife walked 42000 steps yesterday. She probably averages 30,000 a day. She walks three miles in the morning, is a chef on her feet all day, runs in the afternoon and we may even go for a walk at night. For someone to get to 10,000 steps is not all that tough, especially if don't work at a desk.
Iowan wrote:
My wife walked 42000 steps yesterday. She probably averages 30,000 a day. She walks three miles in the morning, is a chef on her feet all day, runs in the afternoon and we may even go for a walk at night. For someone to get to 10,000 steps is not all that tough, especially if don't work at a desk.
Here's a useful tip: The wrist-mounted step counters count motion on the wrist you're wearing them on. If you wash dishes then you get a step every time your wrist moves forward or back. Similar activities, such as chopping, will also register a step if it's the same hand you're wearing the tracker on.
I've noticed mine give me several thousand steps for another type of solo activity that would be less tasteful to post about on a public forum.
My wife recently got a fitbit. She gets close to 10k in a day even without exercising. Granted, she works in two different buildings and walks back and forth a fair amount.
Some tips: get a dishwasher. Second, get a better tracker. My Fitbit never registers hand swings. I've had the device on my wrist, in my pocket and in a bag and the steps are the same.I get 15,000 steps a day without fail and weekends I approach 30000 easily. I run 3 miles a day and walk to and from work. I also go out and wander around since I live in a modern city that doesn't require a drive to the grocery store.Jesus, people.
P.B.R. wrote:
Iowan wrote:My wife walked 42000 steps yesterday. She probably averages 30,000 a day. She walks three miles in the morning, is a chef on her feet all day, runs in the afternoon and we may even go for a walk at night. For someone to get to 10,000 steps is not all that tough, especially if don't work at a desk.
Here's a useful tip: The wrist-mounted step counters count motion on the wrist you're wearing them on. If you wash dishes then you get a step every time your wrist moves forward or back. Similar activities, such as chopping, will also register a step if it's the same hand you're wearing the tracker on.
I've noticed mine give me several thousand steps for another type of solo activity that would be less tasteful to post about on a public forum.
Long before I started running, I wore a pedometer for a few days and had 12-15,000 per day easily. 10,000 is a very, very easy benchmark, as long as you do things in addition to watching TV and sitting in the cubicle.
Hang on a second....Calibration is a thing.
My Garmin watches has an accelerometer and it calibrates the distance/stride based on all of my mileage. I actually do run at about 180 steps/min when running at a 7:00 pace....give or take a few spm for faster and slower paces. What do you think happens when I just have the Garmin activity tracking on and it notes that I walk a 1000 meters...it concludes that I have covering the same distance as I do when I have my GPS turned on and I'm logging running miles.
What I'm trying to say is that, if you're a runner and letting your step tracking device estimate your walking steps and infers a distance from that, then it could be way off because it's using your running miles (i.e. much longer stride length) as it's observation set.