April 11, 2026 - 13:32 UTC

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I have to think of the picture from the Boston Marathon where an official tries to stop a woman from running and taking part in the race.
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I mean I have leg bones that grew in wrong, but even I can hit more then 10k steps in a day with no trouble. Though I think that is more due to hospitality work not giving a shit about pain.
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hitting 10,001 steps and immediately collapsing into a pile of broken bones and torn ligaments
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10k steps isn't that much, I'm sure that when I had the tracker switched on on my phone I got like 7-9k just from being at work
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thought this was going to be the Trump thing where he doesnโ€™t exercise because he believes we have a finite given amount of energy and when you use it up, you drop dead
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This may not have any scientific basis, but I am going to follow it. No more crazy 10K steps per day.
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"Regular exercise is bad!"
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This like an average daily amount people reach in walkable cities without even trying.
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So all those humans who lived on the savannah and it's proven that they ran after deer and buffalo and giraffes for miles until the animals dropped from exhaustion are just a lie? So folks who are built like greyhounds and famously run marathons every year don't actually exist? Oh, okay then...
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IIRC the 10k steps thing was based on an advert from Japan and isn't necessarily some sort of medical-related factoid.
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Me after step 10,001:
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Same thinking that says you shouldn't run for more than 3 hours. Like 3:01 is magically worse than 2:59 ๐Ÿ™„
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Hang on this one makes sense.
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Okay so as a park ranger I would easily walk 5. - 8 miles and not even notice. I cannot say how many steps that is but I am guessing itโ€™s more than 10K.

I also had two years where I did Warhammer week so 40k steps for seven days and it required a good amount of effort, it wasnโ€™t painful though.
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As someone who walks all day inspecting natural gas lines since 2008, definitely not true!
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Can't help but question if this how they learn that they have a muscular skeletal disorder? A learning disability?
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I "aim" for two sessions of 0.75 miles at between 3.6 and 4.1 (mostly on the lower end) on the treadmill. I usually get closeish.

My stamina over the past 18mos or so, when I started this, has certainly improved; I couldn't do much over 3.0 mph for more than a few seconds.
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But it seems to have hit the limit. I'm mostly trying to sustain longer periods near the high end. My weight is stable or dropping, ditto my A1C, so, it works for me.
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Oof, the follow-up
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Disregarding the "10k steps is extreme" nonsense, is that wrong? According to an internet calculator, I'd need about 1500kcal to run 20km. A hamburger, french fries and cola already have about 1200kcal. So if I run regularly but keep my fast food diet, I don't think I'd lose weight.
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Soโ€ฆher original post may've only been intended for eating-disorder Twitter, but it broke containment, got 1.2 million views & a Community Note over the last 3 daysโ€”but only NOW, after Bad Medical Takes weighed in, is she stopping chasing clout and setting the record straight (and playing the victim)
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Looks like they heard some very basic info and just kind of read into it the wrong way. They are saying some things that are true or are situationally true, but then following up with VERY incorrect blanket statements.
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She was DYING to use the word 'homeostasis.'

DESPERATE to use it wherever she could.

Of course she doesn't really understand what it MEANS, but that's another issue entirely.
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humans evolved to sit at the computer
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Do not do extreme things to your body sounds like sound advice though....

But 10k, seriously?
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Humans are famously evolutionarily adapted for endurance running
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10k steps is a 20 minute walk to work and 20 minutes back
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Wow. Just wow.
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Aren't our bodies literally designed to be good at running for extended periods of time
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Well no, our bodies aren't designed at all
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Yeah, humans are endurance hunters, it's more jogging than running, but we have a shocking amount of stamina compared to a lot of other animals
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I mean, for those of us cursed with bad knees, chronically busted ankles and asthma this might be true, but I don't think that's supposed to be most people
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Man, I'm an out of shape middle aged lady hip dysplasia and I can easily do 10k steps. What kind of distance does this person think 10k is? It's probably only a few miles, and if it's broken up through the day, it's not even as hard as walking that.
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They're genuine deadshits
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All of EU is about to collapse in painful death I guess
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Walking is low-Impact exercise and is generally good for your joints (speaking as someone with a joint problem). Sure, if you're not used to walking then build up gradually rather than aiming for miles straight away.
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Iโ€™m looking forward to Walking being added to the X Games next year.
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... Humans are literally designed to just walk. We, as a species, are designed, maybe poorly, to just walk.. forever.
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As was pointed out on this at the other place, this was in reference to people with eating disorders.
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Thats the low end of what my job requires daily. I have days where itโ€™s double that. I guess Iโ€™m crippled.
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If my dog could read she would be SO PISSED OFF.
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Is this advice for people with brittle bone disease, or something?
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cause of death: walking
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Humans famously survived for millennia by sitting around and waiting for prey to drop dead in front of them.
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Bro my job makes me walk so much my fit watch asked if I was okay during my shift
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When I had a restaurant job, Iโ€™d hit the 10k steps alarm within the first hour lol
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Okay, I'm gonna try to steelman their comment.

Let's say you are someone from my 600lb life. Maybe going from sedentary right into 10k steps per day could be harmful to your joints and/or be too stressful on your body?
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shoulda ended it at โ€œplease do NOTโ€
much better advice in general
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