How many steps?is 13,000 a day good?

That's really only something you can figure out for yourself, you need to try it and see if it is attainable.

Here is fitbit's explanation of there10,000 step a day goal, and how you should start off with your step goal.

Fitbit starts everyone off with a 10,000-step goal, and here’s why: It adds up to about five miles each day for most people, which includes about 30 minutes of daily exercise—satisfying the CDC’s recommendation of at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week. Thing is, 10,000 steps per day might not make sense for you. You may need to nab more if you want to lose a certain amount of weight, or take fewer steps if you’re new to fitness or recovering from an injury. Your step goal can vary depending on your needs, and it can also shift over time. Here’s how to set it right for you.

Your fitness goal: General Fitness Gains

Your plan: If you’re new to exercise or returning from injury, you’ll want to start slowly to avoid burnout or further injury. Wear a Fitbit tracker and determine how many steps you take on average each day over the course of a week. That’s your baseline. The Mayo Clinic recommends adding 1000 daily steps each week, so if your baseline is 4000 steps per day, set your goal at 5000 steps each day. Meeting your goal may be as simple as an extra five-minute walk, or even parking a few cars further away at the supermarket, depending on your speed and stride.

yes!
10000 is healthy and anything more is just a bonus.
anything between 10k-12k is suggested as helpful in maintenance.

10000 was a number made up to encourage people in Japan to walk. It is not magical and you can also lose weight by hitting your calorie target with no exercise. I would see where you are naturally with how much exercise you are currently doing and how many steps you get just going about your day. Increase it as you see fit. When I first got mine, I set a goal for 15k a day and hit it many times, although I was often at the gym for hours because of it and don't necessarily think that was helping me incorporate it into my lifestyle.

Things like parking further away, increasing my activity (NEAT) outside of exercise are what i like having the fitbit for. I tend to have the mentality of working out and being lazy the rest of the day because "I worked out". This device helps me get up and move around a bit more in the evenings when I'm a couch potato.


Your experience will certainly be different than anyone else's. But I believe the majority find it is helpful for motivation, no matter what your personal goal is.

As far as I am aware I average around 6k steps a day, some days its 13000 some its 1300, the number of steps dont seem to have much impact on my and my weight loss or health.

But more the better, so aim for 10000 but if you only get to 8000 dont beat yourself up over it.

The more you step, the more exercise calories you have, the more you can eat and the more sane you might stay, especially for women, short people or the doubly unlucky, short women who maintain on calories that I would go insane on if I tried it for more than a day.

The world around fitness trackers and the like say 10,000 steps, so I guess I go with 10,000 steps! I personally think any steps are better than none!

It all depends on what your goals are...

And even if you chose the "magic" 10,000 steps a day, note that you may still fail to lose or even gain weight if you are not watching your caloric intake.

I'm a dairy farmer and its calving time here in nz. I'm on my feet for most of the day and I'm doing 22-24,000 steps. Before calving I was doing 10-13000 and on my days off work about 2-8,000 but I don't lose that much weight over calving, this year is different though. I'm trying to b careful with what I eat. So you can do 24,000 steps a day but if you don't eat right it won't make much difference

It depends. Are you already walking somewhere around 8-10k? Then yes it's good. If you are currently walking, say, 2000 steps then 13k would be too fast too soon.