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100K step challenge tips?

‎08-01-2017 17:50

‎08-01-2017 17:50

So recently I've gotten really into this Fitbit thing. I read on a forum somewhere that it is possible to walk 100K steps (50 miles) in one day and my friend and I decided we're going to try it friday. I know it takes about 15 hours and I think it is completely do-able (we're both Army) But I'm curious if anyone has any tips for it! Thanks in advance!

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‎08-02-2017 07:09

‎08-02-2017 07:09

I'm only a week using Fitbit so my opinion may not count but I read that it takes a lot of training.  I myself would like to work up to it but as I've been sedentary for years before this past week, there is no way I would do a 100K step challenge.  I'm sure it takes a lot of preparation and your body will need to adjust to it.  

What I"m doing is each week I'm adding 1K steps daily.  I started at 5K, this week my daily steps is 6K and so on.  Once I reach 20K (and I am retired so I have the time to do this) I'll then start looking into the proper way to train for a 100K step challenge.  It's very taxing on the body to just jump in and start walking that amount.  

You may have read that my Father did this daily and that's true.  But he was born in 1922 and back then they didn't have tvs or computers and so he grew up being active, constantly.  He just always moved, something he continued even after he and my Mom got their first tv in the 1950s.  

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‎08-06-2017 20:17

‎08-06-2017 20:17

do alternating strokes on a snare drum all day long.

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‎08-07-2017 10:50

‎08-07-2017 10:50

@Sonyajasmine97 wrote:

So recently I've gotten really into this Fitbit thing. I read on a forum somewhere that it is possible to walk 100K steps (50 miles) in one day and my friend and I decided we're going to try it friday. I know it takes about 15 hours and I think it is completely do-able (we're both Army) But I'm curious if anyone has any tips for it! Thanks in advance!

Prepare to have very little sleep and eat on the walk.  Assuming you are walking at an average pace of 3 mph, it will take you roughly 16 hours to hit that mark.   My personal best is 43.9K/319 AM and that was an 8 hour overnight shift, an hour of mowing the lawn and another 2 hours of basketball.  It also did not include the hour of pool time with my boys.

 

 

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‎12-28-2017 08:16

‎12-28-2017 08:16

So did you do 100,000?

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‎12-28-2017 09:54

‎12-28-2017 09:54

@Sonyajasmine97 wrote:

So recently I've gotten really into this Fitbit thing. I read on a forum somewhere that it is possible to walk 100K steps (50 miles) in one day and my friend and I decided we're going to try it friday. I know it takes about 15 hours and I think it is completely do-able (we're both Army) But I'm curious if anyone has any tips for it! Thanks in advance!

Good for you for wanting to take on this challenge.  Have you been doing some distance walking already?  Hope you achieve your goal and let us know how it went.

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