How can a person average 80,000 steps in a day?

[prc1977]

I don't mean to call anybody out or question somebody's integrity but there are fitbit users who average better than 75K steps a day over the course of a week. Assuming they get eight hours of sleep, that means they're walking almost 40 minutes each hour every hour of the day unless they're asleep. Every day for a week.

It is possible that they're running or training for a marathon or walking really fast or are really really into this walking thing but it seems like it is too much. Any way you do the math, it is an incredible amount of walking and it is sustained over the entire week.

What's the most anyone has ever walked in a day? How about in a week? 

I wonder what it would be like if I got up at five am and walked all day until midnight? Doing the math, it would theoretically be possible to break 100k but I don't think I could get anywhere near that. And 80k a day for a week seems too much too.

What do you think?

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[fitmaori]

so I'm doing a step challenge ,fundraiser.The most I've done so far is
60000,calculated on a t/mill,5speed,100 steps per minute x60,=6000,works
out at 10hrs,breaks evry hour,and that is taxing

[Corney]

Ronlaub:  Simply ask them to publish their weekly progress report from Fitbit.  Look for Avg calorie burn, Total active minutes and total miles.

Ronlaub:  Just for the record there are many people who claim they exceed 560K steps per week.  I will believe it when they post 2 consecutive weekly reports from Fitbit showing Average steps per day, Total miles,average calorie burn and total active minutes.  If it is not posted it didn't happen!  Or are they claiming executive privilege?

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[checking]

I think the actual saying goes something like "If it isn't on Strava (GPS miles), it isn't real"

[mr.o.u.s]

"STRAVA or it didn't happen"

[nasacpa]

Haha...someone just posted their weekly stats with about 716,000 steps (down 20,000 from the week before), best day of 115,000, average calories burned, 6700/day.  Average step rate was around 11,000 steps/hr, total done in 67 hours.  Average speed comes out to 5.8 mph.

Heck, I burn (according to FB) around 4000 cals/day, and I'm only doing around 15,000 steps/day.  At around 6200 steps/hr.  And about 5,000 of my steps are not done while I'm actually exercising, just walking from here to there.  So, I'm burning 60% of her calories to get around 15% of her steps.  She's got a heck of a metabolism, apparently.

According to her, "it's just something you slowly progress yourself to do."

[fitmaori]

Sorry,less shes a topend athlete,716,000 a week?I worked it out at 13 marathons,gotta disagree,lady,check ur stats again.

So,just to clarify that,it works out at NEARLY 2 marathons a day over 7 days,now,less u lead a VERY active lifestyle.....?

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[nasacpa]

None of her stats add up.  Based on her FB email of weekly results, her miles were down by 3 from the week before, which came to about 19,500 fewer steps.  I don't know of anyone who needs that many steps for 3 miles, unless their feet are bound like Japanese female nobility.  She doesn't look Japanese in her picture.

Also, during these two weeks in June, where she was averaging over 100K/day, she posted the results of some sort of "challenge" (no details supplied), showing a 1000% increase of "something".  Whether it was an increase of something over the day before, the week before, and what that something was, who knows.  I'm thinking that she's math challenged.

[Corney]

fitmaori: I can't understand why individuals still claim to average
between 560,000 and 700,000 per week every week, but I really don't
understand why individuals still believe them. Solution: demand they post
2 consecutive weekly progress reports from Fitbit showing average steps per
day, total miles, total active minutes and average calories burn per day.
If these are not posted it didn't happen! Come on people, world class
marathoners never average over 100 miles per week. 716,000 steps with a
step length of only 2 feet would come out to over 270 miles per week.
Please, people use your heads, PLEASE!

[fitmaori]

soso true,corney,

scroll past,mate,its b/s

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[Corney]

The only way to stop this nonsense is to shame and embarrass anyone who claims 80K-100K per day per week as well as anyone who supports their claim.  How to do it?  With facts. A person with a 2 foot step length, 700,000 steps per weeks equals 265 miles.  A person who claims 80K steps per day would walk over 212 miles every week.  To put this in perspective, a world class marathoner would never average over 100 training miles in a week.  Demand to see weekly progress reports from 2 consecutive weeks showing average steps per day, total miles,average calorie burn, and total active minutes.  No reports, it didn't happen.  Ignore them.  If they are in your group or competition don't acknowledge their numbers without proof.  People please use the brain you were born with, if it seem to go to be true, IT IS.

Become more critical in your thinking process.  Truth is dying in America!

By ignoring them they will just go away.

[JohnnyRow]

But you are giving contradictory suggestions:

1.  Demand to see reports.

2.  Ignore them.

I would think the more sensible option would be to just let it be.  It doesn't affect me if someone makes a claim here that might not be true.

[nasacpa]

I occasionally find it funny to point out the holes in their math.  The "19,000" steps needed to get 3 miles" is a case in point...that's just glaringly obvious.

I probably don't change anyone's mind, as I still see plenty of non critical supporters, especially if the profile pic is young, female, and good looking (i.e., the profile pic of the person CLAIMING these laughable totals).  And not one of these claimants has yet to reply back to me when I point out these fallacies, either.  They know they're lying, and they don't care.  For some reason, anonymous approvals just floats their boats.

Heck, for all I know, those profile pics are either photo shopped, or totally fake, too.  Neither would surprise me.

LOL....and, it just keeps getting better.  She's now assuring her followers that, even though she's stepping so very much, family comes first.

Wonder how much time and energy "family" gets after your 100,000 steps/day........

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[fitmaori]

scroll past, unfortunately,in ths day n age, the b/s gets better n better

[checking]

Well, they are "Fitbit steps" which often have no relation to real steps.

[Patrick]

I think it's a calculation error in Fitbit.

I average about 10K per day, yet when I look at my Profile it shows 68K.

[SunsetRunner]

Your profile average is your total steps for the previous seven days. It’s your average for the week. If you go into the steps section of your Fitbit app and look at the previous seven days and add them up, they will total what your profile page shows as your average. So as you said, you average nearly 10k per day. If you divide your 67,601 average steps by seven days you’ll get 9,657 which was your average daily steps for the previous seven days. It will change if that next day you get 12k or if you end up with 7k for that day. 

What everyone else is asking is how do people average 80k per day which is a random number chosen for the purposes of the question. Some not so honest people claim to average 700k+ per week or alternatively, 100k per day. They are usually part of this group called Warriors, a name this group of many, many members made up to show how warrior like they are with their 100k steps per day stats. It’s all fake. 

Most of these “Warriors” have full-time jobs and children and they want the Fitbit community to love them and admire them and at the same time they think we’re idiots who would believe that full-time workers with or without kids could actually walk 100k per day. They clearly are not very bright when it comes to math. LOL Even if someone managed to be able to sustain 10k per hour for ten hours split between before work and after work, assuming they work from 9-5, they wouldn’t be done “walking” until midnight and that’s only if they “walked” for three hours before work, so getting up at 5am to walk 2k steps and then taking another 2k during their working hours. So after finishing at midnight they take a shower, go to sleep, if they can right away with all that adrenaline pumping through their veins, then wake up at 5am to start all over again. This leaves them some time in the morning for breakfast and sometime after work between 5-6pm while also driving home from work to eat dinner. No time for hanging out with family, no time for chilling in front of the tv, no time for reading, no time for socializing. Yep, I believe it. LMAO No I don’t and no one else should either. 

These people have built themselves up so much they wouldn’t know how to stop and start showing stats of 20-30k averages per day which is completely doable. They’d lose all that praise. These people want us to believe they are better than ultra-marathoners. Yeah, no. 

Keep it real. Ignore the hype. Peace out. 

[Patrick]

That makes sense,

The Profile misleads because it states "...per Day". So I took it to mean that and not a cumulative for the week.

Thanks.

[fitmaori]

Yay,glad we got that sorted,pathetic ppl

[Madogmolly]

Very well said.

[Patrick]

You are a pleasant fellow, fitmaori

Please advise if the eggshells you would like us all to walk on are disturbing you.