Can Being Too Active For a Day Hurt You?

[inksmear]

So, I'm a wedding photographer, and I just got my fitbit last month. I love it so far! I finally had an opportunity to wear it while shooting a wedding yesterday, and the results made me wonder if I'm pushing myself too hard. I'll be bringing it up with my doctor soon, but was curious if anyone else has seen similar numbers on a very active/stressful day. 

Yesterday I logged 10,690 steps,

465 fat burn minutes,

156 cardio minutes,

and 21 peak zone minutes

Anyone else ever log similar numbers? I felt fine all day - sweaty and exhuasted by the end, of course, but nothing out of the ordinary for me when shooting a wedding. 

[FitBeforeFifty]

@GershonSurge your steps per minute are close to a run, which makes sense because you are training to break the world record Marathon for you age.

I've tried to clear up the steps per minute discrepancy. For me a cool down walk after a run is apparently around 118 steps per minute. I would agree that 150 steps per minute isn't walking, but that wasn't what I was intended to convey -- but I agree with everyone's math on that subject.  I was just rounding up on the steps per mile ... I don't walk a lot, so my off the cuff numbers were a little off.

@Marcy, I understand how you could interpret the 10,000 steps in that way but that isn't how it's meant to be interpreted. 10,000 steps is easy for me to get with 5500 sedentary office worker + 38 minutes of walking. As I said before, to me, 10,000 steps is lightly active (in my opinion.)

[GershonSurge]

When I walk for distance, I set the metronome at 115 or 116 depending on which metronome I bring. One of them doesn't have a 115 option. During my 0.68 pre-run warmup without the metronome, I was at 120 steps per minute. I had the same stride rate when I cut the lawn.

[bcalvanese]

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@Dominique wrote:

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@shipo wrote:

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Short of Olympic style speed walking, is 150 steps per minute while walking even possible?

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Just did an experiment (two, actually). I set up a three minute countdown on my phone’s timer, and started it as I was walking on flat ground with an activity being recorded on my Surge, when the step count was a round amount. Walked as fast as I could during these three minutes: this got me 324 steps (108 steps per minute). Second experiment: same, but walking at my "normal" pace (about 6 km/h, the kind I can sustain comfortably for one hour or more); this got me 225 steps (75 steps per minute).

OTOH, I had a look at the stats on two walks I recorded today, for 8 km. I got 9305 steps in 81 minutes (115 steps per minute) and 8852 steps in 80 minutes (111 steps per minute) on the way back. Sometimes step counts can be confusing...

At any rate, it looks like 150 steps per minute walking would be out of my league.

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Here is a power walk i did. notice the cadence. Average 65 (130 steps per minute) and max 73 (146 steps per minute). The average pace on this walk was 4.2 mph on hilly terrain. I would have to dig through all my workouts, but i think there are one or two where I did better than a 4.5 mph pace. So I guess it is doable, but it took me probably over 6 months to work my way up to those paces.

[FitBeforeFifty]

You guys are beating a dead horse. I never claimed to average 150 steps per minutes. I tried to clear up the confusion in my earlier post. 

[bcalvanese]

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@FitBeforeFifty wrote:

You guys are beating a dead horse. I never claimed to average 150 steps per minutes. I tried to clear up the confusion in my earlier post. 

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I think we all know that, but now it has turned into a "how many steps per minute can we walk" competition...:)

[kramRegnilliw]

just tried it and could only get 92 steps per minute, 150 steps would be a really brisk brisk brisk walk for me