Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear and The Grand Tour wrote an article about this.
Clarkson’s Columns: “10,000 steps a day? I’m not a postman
https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/18axdto/clarksons_columns_10000_steps_a_day_im_not_a/
By Jeremy Clarkson (The Sunday Times, Dec. 03)
I’m a busy man. I write two newspaper columns every week for The Sunday Times and one for The Sun, I run a farm and I have a brewery. And a shop. I also present two television shows on Amazon and one on ITV. So when I hear that a man of my age should do 10,000 steps a day, I just think: “Right, and how on earth would I find the time to do that?”
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I do make time to walk the dogs, but I’ve just checked the health app thing on my phone, and it seems that during this daily, hour-long stroll through the woods, I only ever do a maximum of 2,000 steps. So, to do 10,000 steps I’d need to be out there for five hours. And who has five free hours in a day?
The guy needs to not stroll when walking for the hour in the woods. Walking for an hour should get him closer to 7,500 steps. I don’t have 5 free hours, but I do try to have one free hour to go walk. The rest of the steps are just around my house with my normal life.