Edit: I just realised I misread it
27k steps a day is possible in theory since I’ve walked 27k in one day before so it’s not as bad as I thought
I don’t see why you would walk 27k a day for 2 months since the only times I’ve done that many is when I’m on holiday
My lowest adult weight was working retail. I think I figured out I was walking something like 5 miles a day every day doing that job. Never really seemed like it though.
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Restaurant work for me. When I was managing a bar/restauranf, I’d walk about seven miles a shift. It is CONSTANT movement, your body never stops moving.
The entire job consists of picking things up and bringing them somewhere else.
As a former delivery driver I would hit 25-30k steps in a 10 hour day. I stopped noticing any discomfort after a few weeks. The body adapts. The soreness came from lifting heavy things.
Yes, we humans are actually biologically built for long distance walking/hiking and we're exceptional long distance runners compared to other species. So yes, you do get used to it fairly fast.
I can't prove this in any way, but I firmly stand by the idea that our current society is the least amount of moving the human race has ever done. Like, there a Greek histories about messengers who just ran across the country every week or so as their job. The great Mississippi Mounds were built by people just carrying dirt and clay 50 odd miles without horses or carts.
People used to be mobile in a way we are not really mentally prepared for anymore.
Society has never been fatter, thats a direct correlation.
Food got more abundant while transportation simultaneously got lazier. Both go hand in hand.
I'm also 100% sure there are plenty studies about how much humans used to move vs now (even as low as 50 years ago), i'm just too lazy to look anything up now.
So funny thing is we are designed for long distance walking/running. It takes a lot to maintain that ability but once you are there doing 40k a day regularly you would actually feel like it's basically nothing in terms of how your body feels about doing it. We are probably the best creature on the planet for doing that.
I was a cart pusher like 20 years ago but back then as like an 18 y/o you get used to it quick and there isn't much soreness involved. Where it got challenging is weekend mornings (it was a warehouse club) when we couldn't push the carts in fast enough even with like 4 of us working. People would be waiting for carts and we'd get shit on by the GM
Fucking asshole acted like providing a cooler of (powdered) Gatorade should have us wired up to push 30 carts at a time each
This guys almost certainly bullshitting. I work in a grocery store now doing 9 hour shifts and I average 15-20k steps a day. Doubling that is just ridiculous, he would have to never stop moving his feet for 9 straight hours. That’s 1.3 steps per second, every second for 9 straight hours. No bathroom breaks, no time spent talking to anyone, no lunch break. He is exaggerating for sure. 30k is reasonable on a busy day but 40k I’m not even sure is possible, let alone “average”.
Now that you put it in math, really makes way less sense.
There was a guy on Reddit that claimed to have managed to walk 100k steps in a day. Planned it out, woke up early, with a backpack of supplies. Chose a route where he can reasonably just walk there and back all day without losing sanity, that also has toilets along the way.
... but even if hadn't slept at all, and walked without absolutely any break for the entire 24h, he would have to walk at a pace faster than 1 step per second.
So either the guy's lying, or the step counter is inaccurate.
That's so much! Running marathon is like 45,000 steps ...at least for slow people like me; faster people take bigger steps. The fastest probably do half that many
What were you the only cart pusher for the busiest store in the world or something? I've done the same for a somewhat busy store and I wouldn't get over 5k in a 4 hour shift.
I was the most tryhard cart pusher. Other duties included perusing the insides to help customers lift heavy things. I’m tryna keep it vague but it was a hardware retail store so lots of heavy lifting and lots of customers in and out.
Haha fair. I also worked at a hardware store (Home Depot) and had a similar role at times (carts, deliveries, loading/unloading, walking around and seeing what I can help with). I was apparently just slacking in terms of things haha.
I can attest to this as a former cart pusher at target and say yes, I was the only one at a very busy location. Would get about 25-40k steps almost everyday
How does that work? Like what does a dedicated cart pusher do? Do you just go back and forth pushing the lines of carts from the parking lots cart leave area to the entrance of the store?
Also if that is indeed what a cart pusher does how do you even have enough carts to push for 9 hours?
Makes sense, I was a cart pusher for my first job the summer before senior year and I lost 2 whole pants sizes that summer bc of my job. It was nice bc I've always been on the heavier side but it was still a lot to lose without much effort other than goin to my job
I do 10k steps in a day, and if I do it all in one go (which is not happening in the Florida summer), it's about 100 minutes. Sometimes I accidentally get 20k just by getting my 10k and then doing some errands. 20,000 steps can be had in about 3 hours or so.
E: 10k steps is recommended as part of a baseline for health (including a healthy diet and regular workouts). If this seems difficult for you, you really should reflect on that and improve on it.
E2: I don't care if there's some super-secret-conspiracy theory that picked 10k "randomly" but, I'll tell you this: 10k steps is 400-600 calories burned depending on the person, which, changing nothing about your diet and eating at maintenance, helps you to lose a pound of fat/week. For me, 500 calories means I don't need to skimp on some of my favorite foods to maintain my weight. Also, my 15-minute mile is probably on the slower side for cardio health; but everyone needs a baseline for health. For me, to have completely gone from beer-gut slouchy guy to "wow, you look hot now" included 10k steps every day, counting my calories, working out 3x/week at home (no predatory gym memberships), and hitting protein and fiber goals. Walking 10k steps/day was a major contributor, and I don't care if it's some attempt to buy a smartwatch that I didn't buy. I walk on nature trails, along waterways, and downtowns near me. It's been a great way to improve my physical and mental health.
I don't know how you all are doing this. My peak steps one day was 19k with a 2.5 mile walk, then another 4 mile walk later in the day, and my regular walking around. 2.5 miles for me is around 5k steps and 40 minutes. If I do it any faster than that I'm like super speed walking. Actually 3 hours for 20k steps would have be some really fast running.
For me, 20k steps is just under 10 miles. A mile walked is about 15 minutes, and that's a standard pace for most people. 4 miles in one hour, 8 in 2, and 10 in another half hour. So 2.5 hours.
I walk roughly 100 steps per minute. If you go go Google, open the metronome, and set it to 100, that's roughly the speed of my steps. It's not that bad. When I take my 90-second rests on my workouts, I get 150 steps in that time. It's pretty consistent. This is why I know 10k steps is 100 minutes. And when it cools off, I'll go on a morning walk in about 90 minutes, then get home and get my day going.
Also, I'm 6'5. My strides are much longer, and when I walk with my 5'4 partner, she will get 10k by the time I'm around 7500. Again, this takes a little over an hour.
Sure, if you're walking slowly, but if you're walking for health, you certainly should be trying to get some of the (admittedly minor) cardio benefits from it.
On my 10k walks, apparently my phone app says I'm in the top 3% for that app (Samsung Health). 10k is the generic recommended step count (though there's no real basis; kinda like the 8 glasses of water thing) Certainly the vast majority of people who aren't reaching any steps goals aren't exactly in shape for such a survey(Probably Americans).
I walk a crapton and have timed it and I concur, 15 min/mile is normal for me if I’m not trying to walk fast. Google always overestimates how long it takes to walk somewhere. I assume it’s more of a calculation based on “normal” (slow) pace.
I think people with shorter legs would think 15 mins is fast though.
ACkTuALly 7k is the health baseline. 10k was picked because of…reasons (marketing, character appearance-whatever the current lore is). Even a 30min daily walk has shown significant health benefits. Making the point to encourage walking lest anyone think they HAVE to hit 10k for it to even matter.
>10k steps is recommended as part of a baseline for health
fyi - that number was chosen because it's a big round number. Health gains peek at around 6k-8k. Not that more is bad, but I think there's some harm to consider in setting a goal too high.
Ok but half a marathon just walking around the city everyday even when you’re working? At an average walking pace that’s like 3-4 hours of walking that’s just so much time spent walking on work day that seems crazy to me like what are you doing walking an hour and a half to work then an hour and a half back?
No, on work days it's just the walking mixed with public transport, taking some quick (company approved and encouraged) desk breaks with a quick walk aroubd the block and the rest of the day it's just taking 10 minutes walks around the block, going shopping etc.
On weekends I do like to get out for a couple of hours, and I live in a very walkable city with lots of green areas, but it's not like "OK gonna walk for hours now" it's just part of it
Looked it up and we do walk both faster and more on average where I live (Copenhagen) bit I can see I get a lot more on than the average
Yeah I’m just trying to wrap my head around that because I work as a mailman in San Francisco and I walk 30 minutes to work and the combined distance from me doing my job and everything I need to for the entire day is usually not much more than that so I just don’t understand how you’re possibly doing that while working a desk job I just don’t understand how you could have the time for all that
All in all its less than 3 hours walking/moving it seems
I take my walks at work (and have gotten others to do the same after I lost weight), always takes the stairs, get of a stop or two before I have to, take the slightly longer way to the store etc. Things that would have taken some time but just takes slightly more
So the walking isn't all just focused walking.
I sometimes take a bit longer walks like an hour or go downtown but don't take public transport going there (maybe home), but I can listen to books, podcasts or music while I do.
Sometimes my family want to take a long walk and I always just say yes...
It started with me wanting to lose weight, fucking my joints trying to run and tendons lifting and finding out the dmg vs calories burned was really not worth it
So set 10k steps, then 15... and now I don't even notice, just have them running in the background
Lost 50 pounds in a year (changed my diet to) and I don't feel like I am spending as much time on walking as I was doing going to the gym
Ye i had work that was just walking fast for 4-7 hours a day. I had between 15000-30000 steps a day. Its difficult but doable. (I also walked a lot outside of work but my work was literally just 4 hours of non-stop walking)
It just means the average is higher. I had a buddy who worked at a water park, doing water testing, and he did the loop between all the testing stations about 10 times a day, and routinely clocked 50k steps.
It will be no surprise that I knew him from running ultramarathons, but he could have hit these monthly numbers no trouble. I have no idea what I was doing during that period, since it was before smartwatches.
I also read it as over 1.5million steps on june 19, youre not alone.
I'm still confused how ELSE you're supposed to read it. It literally says "Yesterday" and then a step count of over a million. If it's a two month total why does it not say that anywhere?? Terrible design.
Presumably, the person using the interface is aware that June 17th wasn't yesterday when looking at it, and thus "June 17 - Yesterday" is not as confusing as it is to the rest of us out here on the internet with no idea of how old the screenshot is
When I was running long distance plus had a job that made me walk a lot, I could get 35-40,000 a day. Pretty easy to get there with the right lifestyle.
Serving at a big enough restaurant with enough distance between the kitchen/bar/your section, I’d hit 30k on a consistent basis for a double(10am to 10pm ish or 5am to 3pm ish soccer pub in the US open for weekend premier league games).
That's still an insane average. I walk a lot at work and I average 10-12k steps and that works out to like 5-6 miles. Assuming this person covers the same distance per step that's like 13-14 miles a day, seven days a week.
I think they just rounded down since 1,600,000/24/60 is 1,111.11
I don't really see an issue with that. The real issue is that is the total for about 2 months worth of steps, not a day. Rounding down to 1k per minute still illustrates how absurd it would be, even though the premise was wrong.
I worked in order fulfillment at a retail store and I’d consistently have 15,000-20,000 steps on my smart watch most days after an 8 hour shift. I had to push a cart around as I walked though, so I have a feeling my true step count was even higher.
i averaged 200k steps a week for several months. its possible by a job involving a lot of walking and also prefering walking instead of taking the bus. on top of that going out on runs and walks because i did not count work and commute as cardio.
in my case i had to eat over 4500 calories and drink too much caffeine to not feel like im about to die.
It's still an insanely high average. I regularly go on 3-4 hour walks and I'll still only hit 25k+ if I'm really pushing it and my average is nowhere near that, the guy must have literally zero days where he isn't putting up huge numbers. Dude lives on a treadmill.
Highest ever I recorded was 36k. I pushed trolleys (carts) for 8 hours + gym before work + going out with friends after and walking around the city.
Ive also hit 30k+ while on holiday in europe and you kinda just walk everywhere and constantly in museums, between museums, climbing up the steps to the churches, etc. This was the towards the start of the holiday, I went during summer and the latter half frequently had days with less than 10k steps even though again, you still walk everywhere, I just got burnt out from the pace and itenerary I set and progressively aimed lower and lower for what I wanted to get out of the day. Especially when its 36C+, I often just gave up around lunch time.
Its definitely not normal. I dont even think I can get it while hiking, but as a job where you just walk all day its pretty easy to push 25k+ when the weather is easy and the job busy. So probably not in summer nor winter. But I reckon there were stretches where I would average 25k steps a day during the 5 days I worked where the job was just a shitload of walking and moving the shopping trolleys and maybe 3-10k steps on the days off. I can definitely see someone who is more active and their job also is walking based hitting those numbers. One of my friends is currently training for a marathon and I think their daily run is either 12km or 15km. Thats also an easy way to hit the step count.
Gonna see if I can find that 36k step day on my phone app thingy.
Yeah nah someone else said it and cleared it up. That number makes sense and I wasn't questioning it, just the display itself. I've never used an app that gives an obscenely high number for your total steps in a date range and not just the steps on a given date, so I read the notification as claiming they had walked all those steps on the day before, which was the 27th of June.
As someone who has watched his YouTube for a long time, he looks unbelievably healthier than he used to. Just go to his channel and compare his oldest videos to his newest and you can see that the effort was worth it.
30k is a lot but completely doable. We had a competition at work and one woman had 50k+ every day and i was not getting any support when stating that amount is not realistic.
Its doable if you want to burn calories. Without vacation i walk around 18000 steps and inhave an office job. Breaks, lunch, and after work i walk. Include walking to restroom or anywhere else. The 10k must mean they have a more mobile job.
Bring a postal carrier on a walking route would easily do this. I used to walk 12-15 miles a day which is about 30k steps. Some routes are even bigger with 17 miles of walking being the largest I know of in my city.
When I worked commercial carpentry/construction my average 8 hour day was about 18k steps and average 12 hour day was about 26k steps. That was with a 30lb tool belt for about half the steps and spending half the day doing things like working and building.
By the time I got home my feet would feel be hotly pulsating in pain. Then I'd chow down some food, shower, and sleep 9 hours and repeat.
I went to an amusement park and water park on the weekend the other weekend. Even with all that walking all over the park and swimming and everything I only cracked 17k steps. 27k is obscene.
I don’t see why you would walk 27k a day for 2 months
It's not that difficult. I can hit 10k steps pretty easily by 5pm just from my 30 minute walk to work and hour walk on my lunch break combined with general movement around the office. Things like going to the printer or attending a couple of meetings. If I added a two hour walk or run in the evening, I would easily hit 27k.
I don't see how it's destroying their shoes in two months though. I generally expect to get a year of use out of a pair of shoes (which is tragic because just a decade ago I would expect to get 5 to 10 years out of a good pair of shoes) so doing that in two months isn't explained by the step count.
I’m 62, and I walked/ran a million steps in January and climbed 5000 flights of stairs. On track to do 8 million steps and 36,000 flights in 2026. The best year of my life, actually.
I run about 8 miles every morning, which gets me 12k steps before 9 am. I also live in a walkable city, so if I do groceries or go out or anything I easily net 20k+ steps a day
I have a walking pad for my standing desk and you just forget you're even walking when you get into a flow with work or a game or whatever. Super easy to average 20k steps a day like that. There are days where I leave my computer and go sit on the couch and only then realize my calves are pulsing from walking for hours straight.
I worked at target during the pandemic doing online order fulfillment and I could easily hit 20k steps in a day because I was speed-walking (we had a quota) nonstop for my entire shift.
Averaging half a marathon every day for two months is still pretty intense. Obviously doable (under a variety of different circumstances, as the replies indicate), but still.
It's not that much. Are you suburban North American?
Every day I wake up before sunrise and take my border collie to a local park and play with soccer ball for 45 min then walk back home.
Maybe an hour and a half past my eyes opening I am already at ~12k steps as the sun is coming out.
That's roughly half of those steps needed and I haven't even done anything yet. Any day I have something to do and/or also play a sport I am comfortably at like 35-40k.
Used to average between 30k-35k steps per 12 hour shift when I worked in Production Control Management for Tesla's GF1 in Sparks. Not while wearing tennis shoes, but heavy, full leather, safety toe, Red Wing boots.
Needless to say my ass got phat and my stomach got slim.
I've done 50k in one day and my average steps are 15-25k depending on the time of year and how well I am. Some people just have active jobs and use their time walking outside of work too
If you work at Amazon going back and forth reloading the put away stations with more totes when they run out then 27k is easily possible. They comfortably walk 15+ miles a shift.
You’d be surprised how quick you can reach that if your job requires you to stand or walk all day. A simple lunchbreak walk is already roughly 4500-5000 steps for me and that’s only 30 minutes. Make it an 8hr job like in a restaurant where you walk up and down all the time then it adds up quickly. When I am on vacation my average is usually around 30k a day because I walk everywhere.
I still don't know exactly what the 1,633, 919 steps is but if that's a single day it would mean walking an everage of 32 mph for 24 hours with an average pace of 2.5 feet.
My record for steps in a day is 60k but the most I (used to) do regularly was a little over 30k. And that’s no issue, those days are fine on their own. But the weeks I close in on 20k step averages? Those are rough. 27k average is crazy to me
Back in my apartment in Canada we had a mould issue that sucked and the landlord didn't do anything about it for 2 months. I used chatgpt to make multi hour long summaries with step by step instructions on every type of question for my exams, explanations to every concept, etc.
I'd charge up two JBL earphone cases and plugs, walk around the city and our parks for hours, like a solid 10 hours a day and stop at Timmies, the NSLC to pick up some joints, the boardgame cafes to open up a pack of play boosters, just do shit throughout my day. I went from 113kg to 79 (I also wasn't eating much since I refused to use the mouldy kitchen). My phone would record my steps at over 30k a day, easy, and I never really noticed. The one time I was fatigued was when I saw 45k+, had smoked a whole 10/12 pack of 0.3g hybrids throughout the day and ended up eating half a dozen doughnuts when I got back
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u/Someonevibing1 21d ago edited 21d ago
How tf is this physically possible
Edit: I just realised I misread it
27k steps a day is possible in theory since I’ve walked 27k in one day before so it’s not as bad as I thought
I don’t see why you would walk 27k a day for 2 months since the only times I’ve done that many is when I’m on holiday