How many steps do you take per day
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30k-35k with a Fitbit One.
I pace while watching movies instead of sitting on my butt all day.0 -
My average currently is 9,000...but it's usually more like 11,000. I was hungover Sunday...
Sidenote: Don't save all your calories for the day to go to a party, only to get there and find out they have nothing to eat, but copious amounts of booze, then proceed to drink said booze. You will have a bad time.4 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »No clue, and don't care...I find "steps" rather arbitrary...
I only walk somewhere between 5K and 8-ishK a day according to my phone (auto-installed app), but obviously I walk more than that (see below). I like to look for curiosity's sake but I keep walking for pleasure. I LOVE to walk...but ONLY for pleasure. I don't push myself, I don't feel the burn, I don't challenge that first of four numbers to go up a number or for the four numbers to turn into five. I walk, look around, smile, note the changing seasons (they're subtle here...but still), think, dream. It's not "a workout" for me. It's relatively fast-paced but it is for joy, pure and simple.
For my workouts, I do DVDs. I do those at least five days per week but up to seven.
I find step "counting" to probably be inaccurate for me as I don't take my phone everywhere I "step." Nowhere near. And I certainly don't hold it while I'm working out.
I have to guess that...literal steps every day? Surely up over 10,000 but since a) walking never got me buff, which is what I like about working out (for me) and b) walking never made me lose weight, I just really don't use walking, specifically, as a tool in these ways.
Now, my husband, on the other hand...10K is his "bad day" and he goes up from there. He is the Walking King.0 -
I track steps with my Apple Watch. And I do horribly. Most days I don't get over 3000 steps. I sit at a desk all day, and I'm on the couch or at a desk at night. I've got to get more steps in somehow.2
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I find step "counting" to probably be inaccurate for me as I don't take my phone everywhere I "step." Nowhere near. And I certainly don't hold it while I'm working out. I have to guess that...literal steps every day? Surely up over 10,000 but since a) walking never got me buff, which is what I like about working out (for me) and b) walking never made me lose weight, I just really don't use walking, specifically, as a tool in these ways.
Now, my husband, on the other hand...10K is his "bad day" and he goes up from there. He is the Walking King.
Yeah, my phone was pretty inaccurate for me. Google Fit said I took about 10K steps per day, so it caught about half of them compared to a worn-all-day fitness tracker.
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I track steps with my Apple Watch. And I do horribly. Most days I don't get over 3000 steps. I sit at a desk all day, and I'm on the couch or at a desk at night. I've got to get more steps in somehow.
Get up every hour and take a 500 step "walk" around the office, this alone will make about 4,000 steps for an 8 hour work day. If there is any amount of time during lunch after you eat use it to walk a bit. When you go to the store park at the back of the parking lot. During TV commercials don't skip the commercials, get up and walk the floor until they are over. During phone conversations, pace the floor. A 30 minute conversation will equal around 2 miles. Just a few ways you may find it easy to sneak in some extra steps.5 -
15-20k using a fitbit blaze
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ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »Get up every hour and take a 500 step "walk" around the office, this alone will make about 4,000 steps for an 8 hour work day.
I do this sometimes, but definitely not every hour. Sometimes I get so involved in a task that I sit uninterrupted for 2-3 hours. Maybe I can set an hourly reminder on my phone or watch to remind me to get up and walk around the office.
Your other suggestions are good ideas too! Thanks!
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ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »Get up every hour and take a 500 step "walk" around the office, this alone will make about 4,000 steps for an 8 hour work day.
I do this sometimes, but definitely not every hour. Sometimes I get so involved in a task that I sit uninterrupted for 2-3 hours. Maybe I can set an hourly reminder on my phone or watch to remind me to get up and walk around the office.
Your other suggestions are good ideas too! Thanks!
You're welcome! I can relate to getting wrapped up in a task and losing time! Sometimes I look at the clock and realize time slipped away from me. Sounds like you have a good plan setting a timer.0 -
Fitbit blaze 15k avg0
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I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo 2
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Christine_72 wrote: »I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo
LOL. But now I'm doubting it's really 70,000! Altho when I did the 100 step test it was very close, if not, spot on.0 -
On a work day usually 8-12k (9827 at the moment, so right in the middle). Days off...not so much. And I have a Fitbit Charge.0
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Don't know folks, on a good day 5000, Too much work, not enough fun, and of course - No life
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Christine_72 wrote: »I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo
LOL. But now I'm doubting it's really 70,000! Altho when I did the 100 step test it was very close, if not, spot on.
I guess an easy way to test it would be if you ate all the exercise calories back and your weight loss stayed on track. What does fitbit say your TDEE is?0 -
Average - about 20 - 25K. I use a fitbit charge HR.0
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During the work week, around 30+K or so, but I run and walk a lot (about 3.5 hours per day). During the weekend, it's a completely different story where I sit on my *kitten* a whole lot, and I'll be lucky to break 3K.0
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I've committed to 20,000 steps every day and always hit 20,000 to 21,000. For me, that's about 8+ miles. I'm short and old. I tried to do 25,000 per day but that was just too much every single day. Whew!1
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Christine_72 wrote: »I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo
LOL. But now I'm doubting it's really 70,000! Altho when I did the 100 step test it was very close, if not, spot on.
Where do you have your Fitbit? I didn't see if you mentioned what type it is. The wrist ones can add steps from moving your hands. The clip-on ones can add steps if it's in a pocket.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo
LOL. But now I'm doubting it's really 70,000! Altho when I did the 100 step test it was very close, if not, spot on.
Where do you have your Fitbit? I didn't see if you mentioned what type it is. The wrist ones can add steps from moving your hands. The clip-on ones can add steps if it's in a pocket.
I also noticed that my plain ordinary pedometer would add steps if I had my phone in the breast pocket of a particular jacket. The pocket is deep enough so that the phone sat low enough so that when I walked, it would cause my jacket to tap the pedometer, and I'd get double the steps.
Riding in a motor vehicle also added steps. A particularly bumpy bus route could add 1000+ steps.
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ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »Get up every hour and take a 500 step "walk" around the office, this alone will make about 4,000 steps for an 8 hour work day.
I do this sometimes, but definitely not every hour. Sometimes I get so involved in a task that I sit uninterrupted for 2-3 hours. Maybe I can set an hourly reminder on my phone or watch to remind me to get up and walk around the office.
Your other suggestions are good ideas too! Thanks!
I have the same problem - made worse by regular meetings that sometimes will have everyone sitting around a table for over an hour, or deadlines where I literally cannot stop for as long as 500 steps takes...
When the weather is nicer, I have counteracted that by walking to work or walking to a further bus stop on the way home. I also have been known to do teleconferences standing in front of my desk packing back and forth.1 -
17-19k or so, but the lion's share of those steps are ran. 2500 or so steps a mile and I run about 5-7 miles a day.0
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Christine_72 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo
LOL. But now I'm doubting it's really 70,000! Altho when I did the 100 step test it was very close, if not, spot on.
I guess an easy way to test it would be if you ate all the exercise calories back and your weight loss stayed on track. What does fitbit say your TDEE is?
Weekdays it's around 2300/2400. Weekends is about 2800. I play mind games with myself when it comes to eating tho. I try to leave a 1000 calorie deficit on the weekends and eat at maintenance during the week but I also cheat...handfuls of food I don't log or just estimating with quick calories instead of weighing and logging. This way I've basically been maintaining.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I'd hate to be in a fitbit challenge with you @glassyo
LOL. But now I'm doubting it's really 70,000! Altho when I did the 100 step test it was very close, if not, spot on.
Where do you have your Fitbit? I didn't see if you mentioned what type it is. The wrist ones can add steps from moving your hands. The clip-on ones can add steps if it's in a pocket.
Hmmmmm I have a One and wear it clipped to my undies. I have a ChargeHR as well but that completely overestimated my tdee so finally gave up on it.0 -
Fitbit flex. 24,000 today and I haven't gone to work yet (which usually adds 10-12000). But it was also long run day.1
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I use a Fitbit. I have days where I average under 40 steps, but in normal circumstances I average 8k. My regular daily routines don't involve much walking because I work from home and I don't have kids. When I first started counting steps it said I averaged 1800-2000 steps without purposeful movement. My biggest record is just under 20k after a hike. If go for more than 14k my achilles tendons start to bother me, so I keep these to a minimum.0
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Fitbit charge hr 2
Between 4,000-7,000 steps per day0 -
This thread is inspiring. I used to do 5000steps on normal days.now I do 10000-15000 steps (after taking conscious effort) you guys are pushing me to do 20k steps.let me try.my highest was 17k steps. I use garmin vivofit3
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About 10k per day 1
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