10,000 steps per day?

[disneysteve]

Medical experts recommend that we all walk at least 10,000 steps per day. I clipped on a pedometer yesterday out of curiosity. I consider myself fairly active and I walk on the treadmill at least 3 nites/week. Well, I was unpleasantly surprised. From the time I woke up about 7 AM until I got on the treadmill about 7 PM, I logged a grand total of about 2300 steps. I added another 3000 on the treadmill (30 minutes). Tack on a couple hundred more for the remainder of the evening and I was still under 6000, nowhere near the recommended 10,000. And forget about the days I don't use the treadmill. I guess my 30 minute treadmill workouts need to get longer and more frequent.

Has anyone else monitored their physical activity with a pedometer like this? What kind of results did you get? If you are hitting that 10,000 mark, how are you accomplishing it?

 

[MosMom]

I think pedometers are bogus. I got mine for free at Mcdonalds and I really have to STOMP to get it to count a step.

 

[chrissyk]

I want to do this, but I keep forgetting. Do you have a pedometer that you particularly like? Will any old one do? I have a feeling that I'm way under the 10,000 steps/day

 

[chadfromdallas]

I think pedometers are bogus. I got mine for free at Mcdonalds and I really have to STOMP to get it to count a step.

You think its going to be top notch with a happy meal?

 

[Christine]

I've had a few pedometers an they've been horribly inaccurate. Of course, I can't tell if they are inaccurate on step counts, but they are definitely way off on mileage.

I'm kind of surprised, Steve, that you didn't log more. When I started reading your thread I thought "oh, I bet he logs a lot of miles as he is a doctor and you go from patient to patient all day." But, I guess not? I sit all day long so my step count is probably around 1500!

 

[MosMom]

You think its going to be top notch with a happy meal?

It was a salad thank you very much. I thought it would be yet another fine piece of equipment coming from the McDonalds Corp. Do you think it is a conspiracy to frustrate people and make them think they aren't getting anywhere so they will just give up and go buy a cheeseburger?

 

[stinkerbelle]

I think pedometers are bogus. I got mine for free at Mcdonalds and I really have to STOMP to get it to count a step.

I think my purse walked about 2.5 miles in 15 minutes at EPCOT one day.

heheh

you gotta get your steps in at odd times...like when on the phone...or making dinner (pace around the kitchen)

I know I don't do 10k a day...I sit on my **** most of the day at work.

ETA

OH - my coworker got one of those pedometers from McD's once...however it was missing the COMPUTER part of it! it was ajust a screen and a hard plastic case. Cracked me up

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

my running pace is 85 steps per minute per foot...so I get roughly 2500-3000 per foot workout. Total--5000-6000 steps.

I am wondering if you should be counting each foot strike and not each pair of strikes.

(did that make sense?)

 

[disneysteve]

I'm not using a good quality one, but I peek at it periodically while I'm walking and it seems to be counting reasonably accurately though not perfectly. I figure whatever number it shows is a decent estimate plus or minus 10% or so. I'm sure there are better ones out there but I didn't want to spend the money. I have noticed that it will advance some while driving in the car, especially on bumpy roads.

 

[Tantor]

the one I got at Walmart is great. I went on my treadmill to check the milage and it came out almost perfect. I use it all the time.

 

[Rozzie]

as a nurse with 7 patients on a busy med-surg floor, in a 12 hr shift, I average about 8500k.

I can't imagine 10k!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

i usually get like 6000-8000...i just used one walking around disney and got over 26000..i need to walk like that everyday

 

[disneysteve]

I'm kind of surprised, Steve, that you didn't log more. When I started reading your thread I thought "oh, I bet he logs a lot of miles as he is a doctor and you go from patient to patient all day." But, I guess not?

I work in a pretty small office so the back and forth really isn't very far. The whole office is only about 40-50 feet long. When I was doing rounds at two hospitals, I walked a whole lot more, plus I always took the stairs. Now, I'm not nearly as active on the job but I didn't think it was this bad.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

I've never used one, but have at times considered it if I can find a fairly reliable brand that won't cost me much $$.

I regularly run/jog 3 -4 miles 5 days per week. This is based on driving the route I run around my neighborhood in the car and checking the mileage. I know that's not exactly accurate, but close.

 

[golfgal]

A friend wore one golfing one day and clocked the equivalent of 1.5 miles for 18 holes of golf, no where near close. The yardage on the course is over 4 miles not including extra steps crisscrossing the fairway, walking between holes, etc. There was no way that was accurate. I wonder if it does make a different walking on pavement which is more jarring or walking on grass for recording steps.

 

[sweet angel]

How far distance wise would 10,000 steps be? I also walk/treadmill about 5 days a week -- between 2 & 4 miles.

Also, does it have to be steps? I ride my bike a lot too.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Sweet angel--I run a 5mph pace and that is 85 steps (though I do intervals, so some is walking).

Roughly--if I ran continuously---counting 1 foot that would be about 3700 steps in 3.5 miles. Someone would have to RUN 9 miles a day.

But if each foot counts as a step, my pace then is 170 steps per minute...and that 3.5 miles is now at least 7000 steps.

Something is wrong with those pedometers b/c it is not normal to be RUNNING 9 miles per day. It has got to be closer to 3-5 miles per day of running...a bit more for walking plus incidental steps taken through the day (a total of 5000 steps per foot).

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

And yes biking counts---the point is to be moving throughout the day.

 

[LynnTH]

I have a great pedometer that is really accurate. It is a Accusplit Eagle. I had to order it online ( I had one like this prior, it was a Digiwalker but I lost it and the store did not carry them anymore but said this was one of the best brands). Anyway. I paid about $25 on sale for it. It is small and does step, miles, time and stopwatch. I too work in a small office and find myself going up and down the steps more just to put more steps on.

 

[Dana49]

The average person's stride length is approximately 2.5 feet long. That means it takes just over 2,000 steps to walk one mile, and 10,000 steps is close to 5 miles. I try to walk 3 miles a day, 5 days a week. Set an attainable goal and add distance as you progress.

Here's an informative website that may help:
http://www.thewalkingsite.com/index.html