How do people average 50000 steps per day?

[Emmeli]

Who has the time to average 50,000 steps a day!? How can this be possible?

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[theenglishowl]

shipo made me giggle ! 

[USAF-Larry]

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@shipo wrote:

My wife and I are both keen to run a marathon in the year 2057.  Why?  That's the year we both turn 100.  🙂

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I figure that on my 100th birthday, the only thing I will be doing is sitting and wondering when they will be bringing my tray....  

[Running777]

4 get the tray! How about bringing your best pair of running sneakers for that marathon👟👟👟

[GershonSurge]

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@shipo wrote:

My wife and I are both keen to run a marathon in the year 2057.  Why?  That's the year we both turn 100.  🙂

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I look forward to watching you beat my record. 

[paso]

Hi Alan W.,
How frustrating to constantly adjust your daily stats.
I don't believe many thought you were padding your steps. I know it is hard to remember and to do as my device often records zero for many of my walks.
But I know I am doing the work so I can't worry about it.
I would love to see what a rollercoaster would record for flights😉
Happy trails☀

[MihaiMVP]

Here is an easy way to do a 50 K:

0:00 - 1:00 walk home from bar (6000 steps)

8:00 - 9:00 walk a not so straight line from home to work (6000 steps)

9:00 - 12:00 work something, take a coffee break (1000 steps)

12:00 - 13:00 takeaway lunch (6000 steps)

13:00 - 18:00 work some more, take more breaks (3000 steps)

18:00 - 18:30 return home (3000 steps)

19:00 - 21:00 running time (more like a jog with walking breaks) (18000 steps)

21:00 - 22:00 eat, hop around and eat some more (1000 steps)

22:00 - 23:00 walk to the furtherst bar in town  (6000 steps)

So far 150 K / 3 days.

[Rando1ph]

You're not far off for 5 hours a day. I did a walking competition for work and ended up with 30K a day for a month. I had it up around 40k but built up a comfortable lead.

If I had to average 50k to win, I would:

2 hr walk in morning 12K

walking at work  12K

4 hours of breaking bad on the treadmill at night. 24K

that's obviously 2k short, that's made up somewhere; probobly the weekend.

For me even 40K was hard to maintian. I would get my 12k at work then walk from 9pm-1am. (the last hour carring over to the next day.) Just gotta find the time, mine was when everyone elses was sleeping...  When the compition was tight I walked to/from work a few times. 9 miles one way, that was about the most efficent use of time since I had to go there anyways and I'm saving the 30 min drive time.

[brunoray]

I do my 10 to 15 and I'm happy. When I was THINKING about a walking marathon in Wisconsin I got to 30 once; my knees killed me and I realized I didn't need to do it. We all want different things. I only have one friend I competet with Wrong choice of words. We keep each other honest. She is usually 4 or 5 K ahead of me but that's fine.






Speedy

[Corney]

Why do people purchase a fitbit?  I bought mine to keep me motivated, before I stopped running what motivated me was the next 10K run, or my 6 month training for a marathon.  Now since I get all my exercise on an ellipital, rower and stationary bike, my motivation is my my 2 male Shih Tzu's who wait for me at the top of my stairs so they can sleep in their cage while I exercise, and the information I glean from the fitbit.  I'm not in any competition with anyone for step numbers, I still exercise for my health.  I exercise today because it felt good yesterday, I'll exercise tomorrow because it felt good today.  Let all the other fools participate in a meaningless 50K-80K challenge which in a year or two will be forgotten.  I enjoy my exercise time because it makes me feel good without doing damage to my body.

[Rando1ph]

Im not sure where you get off calling people fools because they exercise
differently than you and have different motivations.

Fyi my employer paid for my fit it and there were monetary incentives to do
the month long walking challenges. That and I'm admitably competitive.

[tsiolkovski51]

How so true and so eloquently put.  You took the words right out of my mouth.  I keep telling people who I know, that have a fitbit and are constantly asking me why their fitbit is not showing or keeping correct/different results as other devices/people........ it's a tool.  We can only base our results to the time and effort we put into the task of being and staying healthy.  Thank you for putting it layman terms. 

[Corney]

tsiolkovski51
You are so right. My FitBit doesn't register the correct steps when I'm on
my ellipital, or my rower or my stationary bike, but I don't care. I'm
interested in the effort I put out to strengthen my heart and other
muscles, maintain my joint range of motion, strengthen my core muscles,
lower my triglycerides and LDL and raise my HDL. The effort I put out
trumps any step count that comes up on my Fitbit!

[Corney]

Maybe if we ignore all the posts from people who claim to walk 50-80k steps per day they may just disappear.  Wouldn't that be refreshing!

[Corney]

Rando1ph

I applaud your employer, he must think his employees are out of shape, unmotivated and knows if his employees improve their health his companies health care cost will go down, or maybe his health insurer will give him a break on his companies health care premiums.  I worked for a hospital, they gave us a free physical every year, blood tests checking for LDL, HDL, PSA for men, EKG, blood pressure, weight.  They also had a Dietician talk to us about clean eating and encouraged daily exercise.  So what is the monthy goal?  Does the challenge last only one month?  What is the monetary reward?  For us motivated individuals we don't need monetary incentives to exercise, we exercise because it feels good and keeps us healthy!  Like I've said many times before, I exercised today because it felt good yesterday and I will exercise tomorrow because it felt good today. Good luck in your challenge and I hope you will continue to exercise after the challege is over.  Have a good day.

[Corney]

I'm not calling individuals fools, I'm saying walking 50-80K steps a day is foolish and if kept up, they who continue with this foolishness will find out for themselves.

[Corney]

What kind of work?

[Corney]

MihalMVP

What kind of work?  You can eat lunch walking 100 steps a minute?  2 hours running, jogging averaging 150 steps per minute with walking breaks?  Perhaps your health would improve if you spent less time in bars, just a thought.

[Rando1ph]

Its a corporation with 40k employees stock ticker gpc. It was 2 months
month one was cash Two was a raffle. Rather not say how much. Im sure they
got a break on insurance. There was also financial incentives to get a
checkup. Really not a bad place for a career...

[MihaiMVP]

@Corney

That was just an estimate to be conservative - most runners average 180 steps / minute (so 150 while also walking from time to time puts me at the low range of what's achievable). I just can't seem to get it over 160 for any longer length of time, even at faster pace. And 100 steps / minute is leisure walking.  

Replace bars with any other activity - the idea is that you can do 50,000 steps and still leave time for other stuff :). Now that I am a week in, easy is a bit of an overstatement, but a fit person could pull this off and more.

[shipo]

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@MihaiMVP wrote:

@Corney

That was just an estimate to be conservative - most runners average 180 steps / minute (so 150 while also walking from time to time puts me at the low range of what's achievable). I just can't seem to get it over 160 for any longer length of time, even at faster pace. And 100 steps / minute is leisure walking.  

Replace bars with any other activity - the idea is that you can do 50,000 steps and still leave time for other stuff :). Now that I am a week in, easy is a bit of an overstatement, but a fit person could pull this off and more.

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Ummm, no, most runners do *NOT* average 180 steps per minute, however, many world class athletes do.  I run with two different running clubs and the highest cadence anybody on either club has is 165 when running race pace, and 160 during normal training runs.  In fact, the 165/160 cadence is virtually universal for literally every runner in both clubs, regardless of whether they are rank beginners or seasoned veterans in the running community.

The above said, I had one run during this weekend's Reach-the-Beach relay where I was pretty much out of my mind; I ran 10.94 miles in 84 minutes and logged 14,153 steps which works out to a cadence of 168.  I strongly suspect that is the highest cadence I've had in any race I've run since the mid to late 1970s.