Poll of the Day > The average US adult only takes 5000 steps each day

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Various studies have found the average adult in the US takes about 5000 steps per day, where 5000 and fewer being labeled sedentary.

10000 steps per day is often cited as a starting point for health and wellness.

Walking is considered one of the best forms of activity, requiring no special equipment, able to be done anywhere, and being low impact.

Will you STEP IT UP and shoot for more activity through walking??

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Clench281 posted...

Various studies

lol

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Clench281 posted...

Will you STEP IT UP and shoot for more activity through walking??

Nope. I'll continue taking an average of 50 steps per day.

I sometimes do an hour of elliptical high resistance in the morning and an hour of neighborhood walking at night and I'm no where near 10000

My pedometer says over 18k yesterday but it's probably a damn liar. Ok nm, maybe it's right but it can't actually be that many. It's measuring smaller steps, gotta be. That's insane. I'm like a rat in a maze.

FatalAccident posted...

lol

May I help you?

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yea lemme see ur sources

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Yeah, I aim for 10,000 a day. That's like a good 1.5 hours of brisk walking.

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FatalAccident posted...

yea lemme see ur sources

As if you actually give a damn, but ok

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927728

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2004/09000/Descriptive_Epidemiology_of_Pedometer_Determined.16.aspx

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/apnm-2012-0235?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org

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I probably take less than 100.

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That was me yesterday, though im not american so i dont count i guess.

Judgmenl posted...

I doubt I take less than 100.

Well yeah, that's a ridiculously low number.

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Sarcasthma posted...

Well yeah, that's a ridiculously low number.

Changed it to probably because I just woke up and used the wrong word.

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Clench281 posted...

requiring no special equipment,

Define "special equipment"?

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Judgmenl posted...

Changed it to probably because I just woke up and used the wrong word.

Well I hope you learned your lesson.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Define "special equipment"?

Special, particular, specific

if you wanted to start walking you could do so with no barriers like "oh I need to go buy X just so I can take part in that activity"

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Just a few steps shy of 370,000 for the month, which puts me at #15,463 out of over 1 million participants.

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My old position involved a lot of walking and physical work so I would get 10k steps easily, but now I'm in an office so I have to get my steps after work. Samsung Health and especially Virgin Pulse have been great motivators to keep me walking and running lol

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SilentSeph posted...

My old position involved a lot of walking and physical work so I would get 10k steps easily, but now I'm in an office so I have to get my steps after work.

Same here, tbh
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back when i was working i use to get like 1500 steps a day. from 730am-630pm i was either in a car or sitting at my desk.

On a serious note, if you guys really are a bunch of 30+ year olds. You don't want to have days you don't move. High LDL and a low metabolism is ripe for developing plaque in those arteries along with hyper tension. You at least want to keep some dumbbells near if your being a couch potato and doing a couple sets each hour.

Please get your bloodwork done and donate blood when you can. It's quick and easy

Check your able-to-donate-blood privilege

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Straughan posted...

On a serious note, if you guys really are a bunch of 30+ year olds. You don't want to have days you don't move. High LDL and a low metabolism is ripe for developing plaque in those arteries along with hyper tension. You at least want to keep some dumbbells near if your being a couch potato and doing a couple sets each hour.

Please get your bloodwork done and donate blood when you can. It's quick and easy

If I die I die.
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Clench do you ever make a topic that's not some kind of humblebrag or smug "you guys need to learn how to get healthier like me"

CoorsLight posted...

Clench do you ever make a topic that's not some kind of humblebrag or smug "you guys need to learn how to get healthier like me"

I know, its like hes usually not wrong but he also seems like he would be absolutely insufferable to actually hang out with.

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So....10 steps each way to the bathroom, average 3 trips a day, which is 60 steps, maybe another 40 steps to make food etc, so 100 steps a day * 30 days =3000 steps average a month.

That was me for most of covid, now I walk alot more due to working, but still mostly drive, probably up to like 500 steps a day at least though.

I feel fine.

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wolfy42 posted...

3000 steps average a month

holy shit

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Clench281 posted...

Various studies have found the average adult in the US takes about 5000 steps per day, where 5000 and fewer being labeled sedentary.

And how'd they come up with the significance for this 5,000 number? Because knowing the other nonsense you believe, I'm guessing it's some non-medical person from over a hundred years ago who specifically said the calculation wasn't meant to be used like that.

CoorsLight posted...

Clench do you ever make a topic that's not some kind of humblebrag or smug "you guys need to learn how to get healthier like me"

He's always been pretty heavily gimmicked, but lately he's leaned so far into the gimmick that I'm not sure there's anything but gimmick now. I think it was his meathead topic where he really jumped the shark, in which he pretended to fundamentally misunderstand the insult and ignore the other common meaning to try to spin it.

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Zeus you know nothing about science or medicine so kindly see yourself out

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Walking is super important to health.

Though my weekly average might be less then 5000 cause my steps on my days off are pretty low. But my work days i am usually over 6000

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CoorsLight posted...

Clench do you ever make a topic that's not some kind of humblebrag or smug "you guys need to learn how to get healthier like me"

Yeah I've made ones about Bezos space flight, instant pot yogurt, complaining about the heat/humidity. I've also said running is stupid and I refuse to do it, which is the opposite of any kind of bragging. I've said nothing about my own activity here and as already stated walking is one of the lowest to barrier entry activities so if I wanted to brag I picked a pretty bad way to do it

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put the crack pipe down

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Zeus may not make very good posts, but I wouldn't go as far to liken him to someone who smokes crack

It's an insult to people who smoke crack

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Seeing average steps nowadays is pretty easy to get info for companies (who probably are the ones doing this research) as pretty much phones and watches are uploading that data to fitness apps pre-installed to the devices. Even if you are not tracking it, it is tracking it.

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Clench281 posted...

Zeus may not make very good posts, but I wouldn't go as far to liken him to someone who smokes crack

It's an insult to people who smoke crack

lmao

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Clench281 posted...

Check your able-to-donate-blood privilege

Is your iron count too low or blood pressure too high? Why did they disqualify you? My girlfriend got disqualified for low iron because she's a skinny vegan. I got disqualified last summer for slamming an energy drink right before.

Not sure what else you can disqualify for. Ive done that rapid pass on the app 20 times now but most of that stuff are things most would say no I think.

Straughan posted...

Is your iron count too low or blood pressure too high? Why did they disqualify you? My girlfriend got disqualified for low iron because she's a skinny vegan. I got disqualified last summer for slamming an energy drink right before.

Not sure what else you can disqualify for. Ive done that rapid pass on the app 20 times now but most of that stuff are things most would say no I think.

He's gay. He's also married and (presumably) isn't exactly sleeping around enough to actually be at a higher risk of having HIV, but that's not good enough for donation guidelines.

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adjl posted...

He's gay. He's also married and (presumably) isn't exactly sleeping around enough to actually be at a higher risk of having HIV, but that's not good enough for donation guidelines.

This

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I didn't know gay people couldn't donate. So that's why they ask those questions. Weird. I wish they would at least allow you to let your blood. It always makes me feel nice for a few hours. My doctor says I make too many red blood cells.

Specifically, they don't allow any man that's had sex with a man within the past... year? It's 3 months in Canada, and I think the FDA dropped it to 3 months because of Covid-induced demand and shortages, but I believe it's normally a year in the US.

Straughan posted...

Weird. I wish they would at least allow you to let your blood.

You don't have to be able to donate to do that. That's a pretty readily-available medical procedure.

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Straughan posted...

I didn't know gay people couldn't donate. So that's why they ask those questions. Weird. I wish they would at least allow you to let your blood. It always makes me feel nice for a few hours. My doctor says I make too many red blood cells.

Yes, I recall there occasionally being therapeutic donations when I worked for the red cross. The donation was always discarded, because the donation volume is nonstandard (and the donation packs have a premeasured volume of anticoagulant).

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Sarcasthma posted...

Yeah, I aim for 10,000 a day. That's like a good 1.5 hours of brisk walking.

That sounds wrong. I did 20 thousand one day at work and that was over the course of 12 hours in which 90% of it I was walking

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I walk about 6 miles a day during the week. Especially now since they took parking privileges away from people that worked during the worst of COVID


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mooreandrew58 posted...

That sounds wrong. I did 20 thousand one day at work and that was over the course of 12 hours in which 90% of it I was walking. I'm not known for being a slow walker either.

It usually takes me 75-80 minutes to walk 10k steps.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

That sounds wrong. I did 20 thousand one day at work and that was over the course of 12 hours in which 90% of it I was walking. I'm not known for being a slow walker either.

Look it up. Seems like the general consensus is 10,000 steps takes about 80 to 100 minutes.

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The average US adult doesn't count their steps

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I'd honestly be surprised if it was actually even that high. People who own step trackers (especially back in 2003, like that first study you posted) are likely walking a lot more than the average person. From my experience, I'd estimate it's closer to 2,000 - 3,000, possibly even less than that.

Also, 10,000 steps is a bullshit, completely made-up number.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

The average US adult doesn't count their steps

The average US adult has a phone that does it for them.

That can do it for them but doesn't

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