Golf and number of steps per day.

[delc]

I have a health app on my mobile phone that among other things measures the number of steps I take per day. Yesterday I played in a golf competition and it registered 19,000 steps and a distance walked of 10.4 km after I completed the round. The recommended minimum number of steps per day is 10,000, so playing golf has to be good for your health! 😀

 

[drdel]

Mine only records 14,000 (7.4miles). 19,000 seems high: have you set your step length?

 

[Dan2501]

Yeah, 19,000 seems awfully high. I did 13,224 steps walking 11.75k last weekend according to my apple watch.

 

[PJ87]

Yeah, 19,000 seems awfully high. I did 13,224 steps walking 11.75k last weekend according to my apple watch.

depends how many fairways you miss lol

 

[Hobbit]

HDID Kenny has one, as do I. A typical Saturday, including golf, is usually just over 10k steps for both of us.

 

[delc]

depends how many fairways you miss lol

The semi-rough was a bit long and I had to do a bit of searching for my playing partners golf balls, which probably added quite a few steps. Also our course has a few longish walks between holes.

 

[Rooter]

19,000 steps and only 10k seems a bit off? Wednesday I walked my kids to school and back as normal, did my day, then ran 10k. I recorded 22,000 steps and 20km..

10,000 steps is normally about 8k walking for me. In fact, today is 14,500 steps and 10.9k so far.

 

[Dasit]

My average daily steps over the last year is 10,024.

Iphone is not always in my pocket so in reality think it is a bit higher

 

[Tashyboy]

Delc, are you an oompah lumpah wi little legs. 😁

Joking aside, I was having a play with my motocaddy a couple of weeks ago, and realised there were a couple of buttons I had never pressed. One of the buttons when pressed showed the total distance the trolley had covered since I have had it (4 years). 780 miles at the close of play yesterday.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

The recommended minimum number of steps per day is 10,000, so playing golf has to be good for your health! 😀

Well I never knew that.

 

[CliveW]

depends how many fairways you miss lol

.... Or how many times you take the 'Walk of Shame' back to play three off the tee.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I have a health app on my mobile phone that among other things measures the number of steps I take per day. Yesterday I played in a golf competition and it registered 19,000 steps and a distance walked of 10.4 km after I completed the round. The recommended minimum number of steps per day is 10,000, so playing golf has to be good for your health! 

Nowhere near as good as you would have us believe (nothing new there then ) The health benefits in walking come from raising the heart rate and keeping it there, which golf doesn't do as you keep stopping. Cardiac rehab teams do not count it as exercise for that reason. It won't do you any harm, but it isn't the greatest exercise for you either.

 

[richart]

HDID Kenny has one, as do I. A typical Saturday, including golf, is usually just over 10k steps for both of us.

Perhaps you skip round, and delc has the shortest stride in the world ?

 

[richart]

Nowhere near as good as you would have us believe (nothing new there then ) The health benefits in walking come from raising the heart rate and keeping it there, which golf doesn't do as you keep stopping. Cardiac rehab teams do not count it as exercise for that reason. It won't do you any harm, but it isn't the greatest exercise for you either.

Try carrying your bag. That raises my heart rate goung up the mountains at Camberley, Hindhead, West Surrey etc.

 

[El Diablo]

I adjusted my step measurement based upon my actual stride length - being 6ft 3in the result was I have a longer than average step so reduced the number but no impact on distance. As a rule I manage about 12,500 per round of golf and just under 10k

 

[El Diablo]

Well I never knew that.

There have been a number of news articles this year which say that there is no scientific proof that 10,000 steps is a measure of any kind that you can ascribe to being good for you.

Given the amount of walking to achieve this and the length of time involved it seems to me by default it meets several measures we have thrown at us.

Over the last week I heard a new one - I manage the number of minutes per day - but you should have a x minutes of strength training. That one I miss.

They really do not know and the goal post keeps moving, anything of a moderate tempo, over an extended period for many days has to be good !

 

[delc]

How does the app work? Does it count the number of times your body bobs up and down as you walk? Is the distance measured by GPS, or does it assume a certain stride length per step?

 

[El Diablo]

Think you have to treat the count of steps as indicative and only way to prove accuracy would be over a measured test - here is a description of how it works on iPhone !

"An accelerometer will provide three values x-axis value, y-axis value and z-axis value. As the person starts taking the first step, x-axis value will increase at a rate depending upon the force at which the person starts to move, y-axis which will tell the relative change in the height of the device along with the force will show an increase in value as while taking the step person will rise from the ground and then it will decrease till the step touches the ground. Based on this kind of pattern match, Step event is detected."

 

[TomTom]

15000 for 18 holes is about right

 

[snell]

Nowhere near as good as you would have us believe (nothing new there then ) The health benefits in walking come from raising the heart rate and keeping it there, which golf doesn't do as you keep stopping. Cardiac rehab teams do not count it as exercise for that reason. It won't do you any harm, but it isn't the greatest exercise for you either.

Just smash your driver 350 yards like the rest of us and you'll have plenty of time between shots :lol: