What is 7,500 steps of walking?

[shootingstar]

Apparently that's average amount per person.  If they live until 80 they would walk around the Earth's circumference 5 times.  https://snowbrains.com/brain-post-how-far-does-the-average-human-walk-in-a-lifetime/

Not so sure that's true for some people who drive a lot and have a full-time office job for many years, where they use elevator.

So that amount of steps would be....an hr. of walking per day? Who has measured this in terms of distance?

 

[donkpow]

24 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

Apparently that's average amount per person.  If they live until 80 they would walk around the Earth's circumference 5 times.  https://snowbrains.com/brain-post-how-far-does-the-average-human-walk-in-a-lifetime/

Not so sure that's true for some people who drive a lot and have a full-time office job for many years, where they use elevator.

So that amount of steps would be....an hr. of walking per day? Who has measured this in terms of distance?

 

It depends on your stride. The military has defined this and set a standards for the troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_step

[ChrisL]

1 hour ago, donkpow said:

It depends on your stride. The military has defined this and set a standards for the troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_step

Slow march... We used that often in Alrington Cemetary.  Leading a detail at slow march is challenging. Walking it on the marble of the tomb of the unknown soldier is like walking on ice with tapped shoes.

[JerrySTL ★]

A rule of thumb is 2000 steps = 1 mile. Of course if your stride is longer or shorter than average YMMV.

WoJSTL is trying to average 11,000 steps a day in 2019. That will give her approximately 2,000 miles for the year.

Speaking of military marching, do you know the one place you should never march? Over bridges. There have been bridges collapse when the military march over them. Sets up some sort of resonance. I believe that there was a similar issue with a new walking bridge over the Thames in London as people tend to keep in step with each other.

[Longjohn ★]

1 minute ago, JerrySTL said:

A rule of thumb is 2000 steps = 1 mile. Of course if your stride is longer or shorter than average YMMV.

WoJSTL is trying to average 11,000 steps a day in 2019. That will give her approximately 2,000 miles for the year.

Not all steps are created equal. Did you ever walk beside Petite?

[JerrySTL ★]

3 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Not all steps are created equal. Did you ever walk beside Petite?

Yes I have. WoJSTL isn't all that much taller than Petite and WoJSTL can out walk this 6'1" guy.

[Longjohn ★]

I think I’ll use an app on Sunday to measure my walk with Zane.

[Road Runner]

I used to use a pedometer to track my distance when I went for a walk.  I had to calculate my stride.  Not that hard to do.  Mark off 50' and walk normally.  Divide the number of steps into 50. 

My stride is pretty constant in a walking for exercise situation, but your stride is probably much shorter when doing other everyday tasks.  I think my normal walking stride was around 2'8", IIRC.  With my current back problems, it is significantly shorter these days.  

[shootingstar]

9 hours ago, JerrySTL said:

A rule of thumb is 2000 steps = 1 mile. Of course if your stride is longer or shorter than average YMMV.

WoJSTL is trying to average 11,000 steps a day in 2019. That will give her approximately 2,000 miles for the year.

Speaking of military marching, do you know the one place you should never march? Over bridges. There have been bridges collapse when the military march over them. Sets up some sort of resonance. I believe that there was a similar issue with a new walking bridge over the Thames in London as people tend to keep in step with each other.

Thx for this starter  (and others, who suggested measuring one's own stride.)

Yes, in-step military marching will cause bridges to collapse because of the frequency/vibration.  Most civil engineers know this basic fact from a design perspective.  There's probably a mathematical formulae from their perspective for this type of calculation that would include vibration/frequency.  Whether or not the rest of the world knows this as common knowledge, is another thing/problem.

[late]

I was a hiker and a backpacker.

[KrAzY]

I walk about 9,000 steps a day at work. On weekends it could be more or less.

[MickinMD ★]

For me, 7500 steps x 2.5 ft./step = 18,750 ft = 3.55 miles.  Those 3.55 miles represent 71 minutes of walking if walking at my standard 3 mph (most, but not all, young walkers pass me by on the paved park trails I use).

That 2.5 ft. (30") is my stride length when I'm getting regular exercise, measured by counting my steps between 0.1 mile markers on a park trail where 528 ft/211 steps = 2.5 ft./step. That's a so-so stride length considering I'm 6'3". Personally, when I haven't been doing regular exercise, my stride length begins at 30" for 1-1.5 miles then drops off to around 28" over the rest of the 2.5-3 miles I walk.

My stride rate stays relatively constant when walking but that's not true when cycling according to my Garmin Edge 510.  On the old LF, when I began adult cycling in 2011 at age 60, I posted some of my cadence times, which tended to be around 60 on level ground and around 50 on hills. I was told I should try to get to 80. I reached the point where I was consistently over 70 on level ground and around and 60 on hills.  Injuries have resulted in this year being the first cycling in a couple years, but I'm going to try to keep my cadence up and consistently about the same from the start.

[donkpow]

43 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

but I'm going to try to keep my cadence up

If you tire quickly using a high cadence and sufficiently low gear, you are looking at cardiac and/or pulmonary  weakness.

[maddmaxx ★]

On 1/4/2019 at 10:09 AM, JerrySTL said:

A rule of thumb is 2000 steps = 1 mile. Of course if your stride is longer or shorter than average YMMV.

WoJSTL is trying to average 11,000 steps a day in 2019. That will give her approximately 2,000 miles for the year.

Speaking of military marching, do you know the one place you should never march? Over bridges. There have been bridges collapse when the military march over them. Sets up some sort of resonance. I believe that there was a similar issue with a new walking bridge over the Thames in London as people tend to keep in step with each other.

These days it's even more scientific than that.  The military uses laser systems to measure the deflection and oscillation of bridges in real time and the bridge master issues orders to individual vehicles to change speeds to break up oscillations and to control the arrival time of each vehicle at the front end of the bridge.  They are of course interested in getting as many vehicles across bridges as quickly as possible without breaking the bridge.

[MickinMD ★]

12 minutes ago, donkpow said:

If you tire quickly using a high cadence and sufficiently low gear, you are looking at cardiac and/or pulmonary  weakness.

Thanks a lot for your concern. I was worried about heart and pulmonary issues and extensive tests showed that's not a problem for me.

When I realized I had reach 307 lbs and was tremendously out of shape in 2011, I began walking with intermittent jogging. I showed my doctor a Garmin 305 printout of my heartrate vs a map of a course I walked, where my heartrate reached 90% of max. walking up a hill.  He said that was enough for my insurance to pay for a complete set of heart examinations with a specialist.

I had 3 days of heart tests: treadmill, radioactive dye, sonogram with doctors monitoring my heart valves in real time, etc.

I was pronounced to have a good, strong heart.  So, in my case, it had a lot more to do with weighing 280-307 lbs and being out of shape or not greatly in shape. My 32 lb bike plus me and clothing represented around 350 lbs at first.  Try going up a steep hill with that much weight - I was thrilled when I could do it without using the granny gear!

Up until 2002, I was running up to 9 miles at a time with the high school cross country team I coached.  Then leg problems, particularly my operated-on Achilles tendons, induced me to being sedentary and getting fat until 2011 when I gave up on running long distances and decided to try cycling to ease the pressure on my legs. Now I get no soreness in my Achilles after exercise.  My weight dropped to 231 lbs at one point, but that's more due to Calorie Counting.

In 2014-7 I had hip and shoulder problems that limited or prohibited cycling. I porked back up to 260-70. At the end of 2018, I was told that in 2019 I could start putting more than 10 lbs of pressure on the completely reattached shoulder tendon.  So I'm doing resistance band therapy to build the muscles back up and will be cycling when we get some warmer weather.  I'm hoping to drop under 220 by the end of 2020.  240 lb the borderline between overweight and obesity for me.

[donkpow]

47 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

build the muscles back up

Any aerobic activity you could muster now would give you a leg up in cycling for the future as well as prime your metabolic system for full operation.

[MickinMD ★]

1 minute ago, donkpow said:

Any aerobic activity you could muster now would give you a leg up in cycling for the future as well as prime your metabolic system for full operation.

Thanks a lot. I'm currently walking 2-3 miles of trails that are hilly with 80 lb Goldendoodle Jake which leaves me a little short of breath on some of the uphills.

When the weather warms, I'm going to do some 1/2 hour cycling on mostly level ground to see how my shoulder handles leaning forward and bearing the force my body pushes down toward my hands.

I've also got some aerobic videos that I should try - thanks for the tip!

[donkpow]

Don't stop. Ever!

[Longjohn ★]

1 hour ago, donkpow said:

Don't stop. Ever!

Not even for stop signs?

[Longjohn ★]

1 hour ago, MickinMD said:

Thanks a lot. I'm currently walking 2-3 miles of trails that are hilly with 80 lb Goldendoodle Jake which leaves me a little short of breath on some of the uphills.

When the weather warms, I'm going to do some 1/2 hour cycling on mostly level ground to see how my shoulder handles leaning forward and bearing the force my body pushes down toward my hands.

I've also got some aerobic videos that I should try - thanks for the tip!

You get your core in shape you won’t have the force of your body pushing down on your hands. I was wondering about that not riding a bike after shoulder surgery. My shoulders are hardly involved when I ride. I was back riding with a broken shoulder blade and collar bone after six weeks. My orthopedic guy just told me not to crash.

After my shoulder surgery last year we had ice and snow so I didn’t ride outside until the snow was gone.

[Further]

7500 steps or so for me equals just under 3 miles, on mixed terrain  Woods paths & paved walking trails, hills & level. And just over an hour if I don't stop to smell the roses.