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?

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[Corney]

The best shoes for walking and running are shoes with a good arch support and a firm heel counter for rear foot stability, the feet may take alot of abuse in walking as well as running, but the kinetic forces also go up the kinetic chain, to the knee, hip and probably the spine.

[Oriondestiny]

With my fitbit on my wrist, I can get 1000 steps folding laundry in 30 minutes. Think of someone loading and unloading parts out of a machine for 8-10 hours. I get up to 500 steps in the morning satisfying my cat's need for thier morning attention in a short 5-10 minutes. Between that and my morning workout, I generally have 4-5k steps before I leave for work. But I have a sit down job so I only get 1-3k steps during working hours. I walk 2 miles, another 4500-5000 steps at lunch. After work at home I am quite active with yard work, cooking and other things. I'm up to averaging 20,000 steps per day, consistently. 50K is alot. I'm in the top 2% highest in the Chicago fitbit group of 2100 people. Yea, I consider myself on the extreme side but these few 50K people.... obsesed. I'm bad but, my god, 50k steps? I have better things to do.

[DjGruv]

For the average person 50k steps a day is impossible. Now if you devote your day on hitting 50k you might do it but good luck. I'm an athlete and don't hit 50k a day. I don't know many people that can do a half marathon everyday. Do you?

[shipo]

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@DjGruv wrote:
For the average person 50k steps a day is impossible. Now if you devote your day on hitting 50k you might do it but good luck. I'm an athlete and don't hit 50k a day. I don't know many people that can do a half marathon everyday. Do you?

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A half marathon every day?  I can do it (running; walking would take too much time), but that only amounts to about 21,000-22,000 steps per training run (more like 17,000 for an actual half marathon race), heck, even a full marathon per day doesn't get you 50,000 steps unless you walk the whole thing or take lots of really small running steps.

Like you wrote, 50,000 steps a day is impossible for the average persons; unless they're hiking the Appalachian Trail or some such endeavor, 50,000 steps per day is just a fiction in the mind of the person logging them.

[Postie123]

Im a postie (mail carrier) in the UK and everywhere I deliver is in excess of 12 mile a day so am roughly completing 3 marathons a week (I work 6 days) and I can get nowhere near 50k a day but regulary achieve 30k + 

[shipo]

@Postie123, sounds about right; I've been over 30,000 steps in a day dozens of times but I have never once cracked the 40,000 step threshold (much less the 50,000 step threshold).

[Postie123]

@shipo One of my mates that I have challenges with have achieved 50k in a day that involved him walking to and from work plus walking in work plus going hiking up a mountain after work. He said theres no way he could achieve that every day. His average is around 30k. I was nearly at the 35k yeaterday about 800 short thats the highest that ive achieved  

[tsiolkovski51]

Thank you..... I have stopped participating in any challenges because the last one I was in, I was in first place legitimately mind you..... then all of a sudden with like an hour left to go this person comes on and with a ridiculious amount of steps takes first place.  Now I don't have the foggiest idea on how they did that but I felt it was a little unfair.  I just wish there was a way of explaining it to all those who invite me to a challenge and I decline.

[shipo]

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@tsiolkovski51 wrote:

Thank you..... I have stopped participating in any challenges because the last one I was in, I was in first place legitimately mind you..... then all of a sudden with like an hour left to go this person comes on and with a ridiculious amount of steps takes first place.  Now I don't have the foggiest idea on how they did that but I felt it was a little unfair.  I just wish there was a way of explaining it to all those who invite me to a challenge and I decline.

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I completely agree; my Fitbit account is now in what I call a "Challenge Free Zone".  🙂

[Nick_87]

A friend of mine who is in the forces used to challenge all of his soldier buddies and used to rack up well over 50,000. 

It turns out he was attaching his fitbit to his dog! Boom! 100,000 steps in like two hours!

[PortgasDAlex]

Man..I feel it  on the few days I've managed 30k.  I don't think I can manage 50k right now.  I don't work and have to rely on long, long walks and Arc Trainer steps, since I set Fitbit and MyFitnesssPal to Sedentary so I could add the gym workouts.  

15-20k I think is best for me right now, especially as I'm trying to be active 7 days a week now.   But kudos to you guys who  have made 40k and beyond, or who regularly do 30k+.  I'm so jealous.  *lol* 

[philly78]

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@tsiolkovski51 wrote:

Thank you..... I have stopped participating in any challenges because the last one I was in, I was in first place legitimately mind you..... then all of a sudden with like an hour left to go this person comes on and with a ridiculious amount of steps takes first place.  Now I don't have the foggiest idea on how they did that but I felt it was a little unfair.  I just wish there was a way of explaining it to all those who invite me to a challenge and I decline.

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I've been in challenges where someone who normally averages around 10k steps per day is suddenly getting 30k-40k steps daily in a challenge. Is it possible that this person stepped up their game? Absolutely! But then I did a chalenge with this person included in it again and the numbers were just ridiculious and would jump an additional 10k steps in 30 minutes. The competitive side of me loves challenges and it has helped me to work on increasing my daily step totals so I didn't want to give them up completely. So now, I just don't particpate in challenges with that person anymore.

[Running777]

They exercise while sleeping?😂😂 Lol!

[bellerophon30]

I work on my feet all day, and don't use a motor vehicle (car or bus) to get to work.  When I walked to work in the winter I could hit 55,000 per day no problem.  Plus, and this can't be discounted:  It's easier if you try.  By that I mean focus on getting it.  

The ones I don't get are the ones who hit 90,000, the highest badge (I think).  That one you really have to shoot for.

[Corney]

The question I continually ask is WHY?

[Incognito]

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@bellerophon30 wrote:

I work on my feet all day, and don't use a motor vehicle (car or bus) to get to work.  When I walked to work in the winter I could hit 55,000 per day no problem.  Plus, and this can't be discounted:  It's easier if you try.  By that I mean focus on getting it.  

The ones I don't get are the ones who hit 90,000, the highest badge (I think).  That one you really have to shoot for.

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Highest Badge is 100k per day.  I got it twice.  Why?  Just because.  It is totally an all day thing and it hurt the first time.  But second time around was not as bad as I learned a thing or 2.

[Corney]

How far do you live from work? How long does it take to get there? What kind of job do you have? How many miles does 55K steps equal? How many calories do you burn doing 55K steps?  I'll be vey interested in all your answers.

[bellerophon30]

I guess that was meant for me, so I'll answer:  I'm four miles from work, it's about an hour each way (on snowy sidewalks and streets mind you), and gave me roughly 17,000 steps for the round trip.  I didn't really dress warmly, I live in Michigan, because once you get going, you don't need to.  One time it was 11 degrees, I wore a t-shirt and a light hoodie on my torso and was sweating by the end.  As for calories......5,500 maybe?  It all depends on how much you weigh of course, and how hilly the course is.  The miles vary as well, I'll do 45,000 today and get 20 miles out of it, but sometimes the ratio is a bit better.  As for the 100K comment above....again I think it's something you have to shoot for, it's not going to be happening by chance.  I'm not doubting those who hit it, I admire them if anything.  One weekend (non-work) day come winter I'm half tempted to do an all day treadmill day and see how close I get.  Gotta have goals.

[Corney]

What kind of work do you do?  You said you are on your fet all day?

[Incognito]

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@bellerophon30 wrote:

I guess that was meant for me, so I'll answer:  I'm four miles from work, it's about an hour each way (on snowy sidewalks and streets mind you), and gave me roughly 17,000 steps for the round trip.  I didn't really dress warmly, I live in Michigan, because once you get going, you don't need to.  One time it was 11 degrees, I wore a t-shirt and a light hoodie on my torso and was sweating by the end.  As for calories......5,500 maybe?  It all depends on how much you weigh of course, and how hilly the course is.  The miles vary as well, I'll do 45,000 today and get 20 miles out of it, but sometimes the ratio is a bit better.  As for the 100K comment above....again I think it's something you have to shoot for, it's not going to be happening by chance.  I'm not doubting those who hit it, I admire them if anything.  One weekend (non-work) day come winter I'm half tempted to do an all day treadmill day and see how close I get.  Gotta have goals.

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Yeah, it is an all day dedication to do that.  So if you do try, good luck.