How many Steps\callories burned to you get "excluding exercise"

[PerfectBlue]

More out of curiosity than anything else, but how many steps do you record, and how many calories do you burn, in an average day. Excluding any actual exercise.

I'm averaging about 9000 stpes and 2000 callories from when I go out in the morning to when I get home in the evening. That's just doing regular daily things, and excluding specific exercise like running or jogging, which I do on top of this.

Is this a normal healthy amount?

[Raviv]

It depends on the day.  If I've had a long week and it's my off day, then I've gone as low as less than a mile, which (for me) is less than 2,000 steps and 1,700 calories.

On the other hand, yesterday had me running all over the place for work, so I ended up with almost 5 miles, 9,300 steps and 2,100 calories burned.  I should have almost as many today, and that's before I hit the gym.

[Fifre]

My 7 day average is 7160 steps and 2213 calories burnt. This is without any actual exercise but including a long walk most days (skipped it once in the past week). I don't know if you consider walking exercise. It isn't NOT exercise, but it's not something that makes you sweat.

[PerfectBlue]

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@Fifre wrote:

I don't know if you consider walking exercise. It isn't NOT exercise, but it's not something that makes you sweat.

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I'm pretty certain that there will be people on this site ready to argue what is\isn't exercise. I don't think that I want to get into that argument, it could get quite heated given that this is a fitness site.

Mostly I mean "stuff that's outside of your basic daily life".

So, I wouldn't count walking the dog, or walking to school as exercise, or picking up groceries, but I would count your morning run, or a game of tennis with your friends. Long walks?

I guess that if you're going somewhere like a stores to buy something it doesn't count, but if you're walking around the local park, it does. What do you think?

My 9000 steps is the stuff that I have to do as the bare minimum. So it doens't include sports, or stuff like that. Just walking from A to B, and going up\down stairs. I hadn't really thougt about it until I started tracking it.

Ironically, most of the actual exercise that I do is contact sport. So I can't actually wear my fitbit for that. No jewelry.

[Fifre]

I can imagine that there are strong opinions on both sides! I normally walk about 5 km after dinner, so that accounts for a good chunk of my steps.

[SunsetRunner]

Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I've moved your posts to the "Get fit area" since this is more related to the ongoing topic.

I wish you an excellent weekend!

[johnr]

Hi.

My average is approx 4500 steps and 2250 kcal. I work at an office...

[Piglet0403]

I average 10000 steps daily. I am trying really hard to lose weight so I am becoming obsessive for ways to take extra steps. I currently am down a lot due to back injury and can't stand/sit for long or I have severe sciatica pain. So when I do light housework and have to take items to another room I do 1 item at a time. I look crazy I am sure but it works. I also try to fit in a 30minute walk once daily, twice if sciatica not horrible. but I lay down 1-2 hours for every 1-2 hours up. I thought I was doing well but when I got my fit bit last weekend I was shocked that I was only averaging 2500-3500 steps daily.

[shirley123]

If you walk fast enough or far enough you will sweat. Therefore this should count as a form of exercise in my opinion.

[extra_medium]

The OP said anything outside of your normal daily routine of getting up, getting ready, going to work, working, coming home etc.   I assume the point is to see how many people have to make an extra effort to get to 10K steps a day or whatever the goal is.  A long walk taken just for the sake of taking a long walk should count as excercise.  I don't think it matters if you sweat. 🙂

[SunsetRunner]

I consider anything outside your daily routine that elevates your heartrate and done for the purpose of fitness to be exercise. I work IT so I would normally get about 2-3k steps a day if I wasn't health concious meaning that I'd get maybee 1-200 calories over my BMR. So I end up going on two 40 min walks, one during lunch and one after work to get me to about 13000 steps. If it is a cardio day I will put 1-2 hours on the eliptical. If it is a weekend I will put about 30-40k steps since I go hiking.