| 10’000 steps a day 04:12 - Jul 1 with 3277 views | Benters |
Does anyone else do them?
I mean why is it set at 10’000 anyway ? |  |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 17:07 - Jul 1 with 712 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 12:54 - Jul 1 by leitrimblue |
Use to working site with a girl who was doing the 10, 000 steps thing. She/we use to hit the 10,000 around lunchtime every day.
I would have thought the cycling gets the heart pumping more though? |
I’m off cycling at the mo. | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 18:11 - Jul 1 with 664 views | WD19 |
It’s a made up number.
That said I have averaged well over 300k steps for months for a few years now. Never let the total drop below 300k for the month under any circumstances. It does require a bit of commitment from time to time. |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 18:20 - Jul 1 with 648 views | leitrimblue |
| 10’000 steps a day on 17:07 - Jul 1 by Benters |
I’m off cycling at the mo. |
Anywhere near Clare or Haverhill? |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 22:23 - Jul 1 with 586 views | ronnyd |
| 10’000 steps a day on 12:39 - Jul 1 by Benters |
It all depends on height and stride length etc
But it’s roughly 18’000 to 20’000 steps a day 👍 |
For me 10,000 is about 4.5 miles. There again, i'm a shortarse. |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 22:44 - Jul 1 with 564 views | Swansea_Blue |
| 10’000 steps a day on 08:18 - Jul 1 by BlueandTruesince82 |
10000 steps was a number that was hit on by scientists leading up to the Tokyo Olympics where they were giving out pedometers as a way of promoting the event. What it was that got them to 10k I dont recall, science i guess. But I think thats the background |
I doubt it was from scientists. That sounds far too daft to be a scientific conclusion. For a start, you could get equal or better health benefits from swimming, cycling and any other number of sports where you don’t strictly take ‘a step’.
But yeah, move more eat less is normally a pretty good rule of thumb without getting bogged down in detail. |  |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 04:25 - Jul 2 with 507 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 22:23 - Jul 1 by ronnyd |
For me 10,000 is about 4.5 miles. There again, i'm a shortarse. |
It’s not quite 4 miles for me😂 | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 04:26 - Jul 2 with 506 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 18:20 - Jul 1 by leitrimblue |
Anywhere near Clare or Haverhill? |
Smart arse 😂👍 | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 08:22 - Jul 2 with 442 views | ronnyd |
| 10’000 steps a day on 04:25 - Jul 2 by Benters |
It’s not quite 4 miles for me😂 |
Have you got legs like John Cleese? | | | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 09:23 - Jul 2 with 406 views | Gogs |
10,000 steps is more or less 5 miles for me. I’m 5’11” if that’s any sort of guideline for anyone, translates to a stride length of 80cm in metric, 8km total. I’ve recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure, walking is good exercise so I try and achieve 10,000+ steps per day. Haven’t had a problem yet as it’s a mile & a half walk to work, plus a bit of walking in my lunch break. If I go out in the evening as well I go well past 10,000, without really having to think about it. I’ve done more than double that occasionally on days out. |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 10:11 - Jul 2 with 378 views | mrfixit426 |
Here's what Arnold Schwarzenegger and his team say about it in one of his recent newsletters:
Your watch buzzes. You’re at 9,847 steps. You march in circles around your kitchen just to hit 10,000. But where did that number even come from — and is it actually the key to a longer life?
No matter what some people might suggest, 10,000 steps isn’t magic, and the benefits begin long before you hit that number.
Here’s the truth: the 10,000-step goal wasn’t born from science — it started as a marketing campaign in Japan in the 1960s to sell pedometers. That doesn’t make it bad advice, but it’s not a science-backed threshold either.
Recent research has flipped the script. A large-scale meta-analysis analyzed data from over 47,000 adults across four continents. The findings? Longevity benefits start around 6,000 steps per day, and plateau between 8,000 and 10,000 steps — meaning more steps don’t necessarily mean more years.
In older adults (60+), 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day were linked to a 54 percent lower risk of premature death compared to sedentary individuals. For younger adults, pushing toward 10,000 may offer slight additional benefits — but the biggest health improvements come from simply moving more, even as little as 3,000 to 4,000 steps per day.
And step count isn’t everything. Step intensity — like walking briskly or including hills — also improves cardiovascular and metabolic health, even with fewer total steps.
If you’re sedentary, don’t stress about 10,000. Focus on adding 2,000 to 3,000 more steps than your baseline. That’s where the biggest jump in health benefits occurs. Walk after meals, take phone calls on foot, or break up your workday with movement snacks.
Because walking isn’t about chasing a number. It’s about building a body (and brain) that’s made to last.
Maybe that useful for someone.  |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 15:50 - Jul 2 with 298 views | ford6600 |
Got a cheap smart watch recently, most days forget to use it but on holiday in March did over 225k steps, a usual day is only 6k or so. Motivates you to walk rather than take a bus but walking, looking in shop windows, pointing at fish in river, staring up at large Oak trees hardly creates a sweat! Need brisk walking...try walking to a pub in record time..then undo the good exercise by having a couple of pints [Post edited 2 Jul 15:57]
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| 10’000 steps a day on 17:50 - Jul 2 with 257 views | Leaky |
| 10’000 steps a day on 08:50 - Jul 1 by Benters |
Possibly,I will ask at the next rally. |
Think you burn more calories if you right arm is raised at a 45 degree angle whilst Goose stepping |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 18:11 - Jul 2 with 235 views | bobbyramsey |
| 10’000 steps a day on 10:11 - Jul 2 by mrfixit426 |
Here's what Arnold Schwarzenegger and his team say about it in one of his recent newsletters:
Your watch buzzes. You’re at 9,847 steps. You march in circles around your kitchen just to hit 10,000. But where did that number even come from — and is it actually the key to a longer life?
No matter what some people might suggest, 10,000 steps isn’t magic, and the benefits begin long before you hit that number.
Here’s the truth: the 10,000-step goal wasn’t born from science — it started as a marketing campaign in Japan in the 1960s to sell pedometers. That doesn’t make it bad advice, but it’s not a science-backed threshold either.
Recent research has flipped the script. A large-scale meta-analysis analyzed data from over 47,000 adults across four continents. The findings? Longevity benefits start around 6,000 steps per day, and plateau between 8,000 and 10,000 steps — meaning more steps don’t necessarily mean more years.
In older adults (60+), 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day were linked to a 54 percent lower risk of premature death compared to sedentary individuals. For younger adults, pushing toward 10,000 may offer slight additional benefits — but the biggest health improvements come from simply moving more, even as little as 3,000 to 4,000 steps per day.
And step count isn’t everything. Step intensity — like walking briskly or including hills — also improves cardiovascular and metabolic health, even with fewer total steps.
If you’re sedentary, don’t stress about 10,000. Focus on adding 2,000 to 3,000 more steps than your baseline. That’s where the biggest jump in health benefits occurs. Walk after meals, take phone calls on foot, or break up your workday with movement snacks.
Because walking isn’t about chasing a number. It’s about building a body (and brain) that’s made to last.
Maybe that useful for someone. |
General medical advice is and has been for ages, a brisk walk of between 30-40 minutes per day is ample. Forty minutes equates to 5,000 steps for me which more or less ties in with the above. |  | | |
| 10’000 steps a day on 06:35 - Jul 3 with 178 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 17:50 - Jul 2 by Leaky |
Think you burn more calories if you right arm is raised at a 45 degree angle whilst Goose stepping |
Balls | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 06:36 - Jul 3 with 175 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 10:11 - Jul 2 by mrfixit426 |
Here's what Arnold Schwarzenegger and his team say about it in one of his recent newsletters:
Your watch buzzes. You’re at 9,847 steps. You march in circles around your kitchen just to hit 10,000. But where did that number even come from — and is it actually the key to a longer life?
No matter what some people might suggest, 10,000 steps isn’t magic, and the benefits begin long before you hit that number.
Here’s the truth: the 10,000-step goal wasn’t born from science — it started as a marketing campaign in Japan in the 1960s to sell pedometers. That doesn’t make it bad advice, but it’s not a science-backed threshold either.
Recent research has flipped the script. A large-scale meta-analysis analyzed data from over 47,000 adults across four continents. The findings? Longevity benefits start around 6,000 steps per day, and plateau between 8,000 and 10,000 steps — meaning more steps don’t necessarily mean more years.
In older adults (60+), 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day were linked to a 54 percent lower risk of premature death compared to sedentary individuals. For younger adults, pushing toward 10,000 may offer slight additional benefits — but the biggest health improvements come from simply moving more, even as little as 3,000 to 4,000 steps per day.
And step count isn’t everything. Step intensity — like walking briskly or including hills — also improves cardiovascular and metabolic health, even with fewer total steps.
If you’re sedentary, don’t stress about 10,000. Focus on adding 2,000 to 3,000 more steps than your baseline. That’s where the biggest jump in health benefits occurs. Walk after meals, take phone calls on foot, or break up your workday with movement snacks.
Because walking isn’t about chasing a number. It’s about building a body (and brain) that’s made to last.
Maybe that useful for someone. |
An excellent post have a uppie. | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 07:02 - Jul 3 with 161 views | ChalonerC |
After recovering from advanced prostate cancer and a traumatic road accident, hit by a car while out on my bike, I had to learn to walk again. And as a 76 yr old we lose muscle mass and strength anyway.
I now walk 5 to 7,000 steps every day, enjoyably, outdoors, meet people, chat and get fit. No need to be obsessed by it, walking is as good as other exercise if not better and it's free! Simple gardening too.
Eat healthy, cut out processed food crap and keep walking! | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 07:14 - Jul 3 with 149 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 07:02 - Jul 3 by ChalonerC |
After recovering from advanced prostate cancer and a traumatic road accident, hit by a car while out on my bike, I had to learn to walk again. And as a 76 yr old we lose muscle mass and strength anyway.
I now walk 5 to 7,000 steps every day, enjoyably, outdoors, meet people, chat and get fit. No need to be obsessed by it, walking is as good as other exercise if not better and it's free! Simple gardening too.
Eat healthy, cut out processed food crap and keep walking! |
I’m so pleased you are doing well and staying strong my friend.
Yes some good advice there well done you. | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 08:28 - Jul 3 with 100 views | ChalonerC |
| 10’000 steps a day on 07:14 - Jul 3 by Benters |
I’m so pleased you are doing well and staying strong my friend.
Yes some good advice there well done you. |
Thanks Benters! | |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 11:42 - Jul 3 with 64 views | Ryorry |
| 10’000 steps a day on 07:02 - Jul 3 by ChalonerC |
After recovering from advanced prostate cancer and a traumatic road accident, hit by a car while out on my bike, I had to learn to walk again. And as a 76 yr old we lose muscle mass and strength anyway.
I now walk 5 to 7,000 steps every day, enjoyably, outdoors, meet people, chat and get fit. No need to be obsessed by it, walking is as good as other exercise if not better and it's free! Simple gardening too.
Eat healthy, cut out processed food crap and keep walking! |
Great to hear of your progress Chaloner, and have just revisited your very helpful post of about 15 months ago with its links to exrcises for ITB syndrome as it's tightened up a bit again recently.
Kee-eep walkin :) |  |
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| 10’000 steps a day on 12:06 - Jul 3 with 42 views | Benters |
| 10’000 steps a day on 08:28 - Jul 3 by ChalonerC |
Thanks Benters! |
Always good to see someone who is a fighter 👍💪 | |
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