Doctors are always telling us to keep our steps up, and chances are, if you work in a busy hospitality job or one that's outdoors, you can easily smash past your 10,000 steps a day target. Then again, we're told that it's okay to bring that average down as you get older, and in reality, you can still see some important health benefits if you're getting 7,000 steps a day.
Planning to blow that out of the water, English YouTuber JackSucksAtLife attempted to walk 100,000 steps in a single day and see what effect it had on his body.
Having set off at 6:00 a.m. in the dark, Jack managed to reach 1,000 steps after around 10 minutes and wrongly said it was going to be a 'walk in the park'. Something tells us that the Jack we see at the end of the video really regrets saying that.
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With Jack having previously tried to walk 250,000 steps in just one week, this was a very different endeavor.
Realizing that it took 48 minutes to do 5,000 steps, the reality soon dawned that it was going to be a long day. At that rate, it would take 16 hours to walk 100,000 steps...and that's without stopping.
He planned to stick in a few bouts of jogging to get the whole thing done in under 12 hours, but *spoiler*, it would end up taking a lot longer. When hitting the 25,000 milestone, Jack admitted his ankles and his back were starting to ache, and being just a quarter of the way through, things were only going to get worse.
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When reaching 50,000 he admitted: "My feet do ache, I'm not going to lie to you. Everything else feels fine, but my feet feel like they've been slammed against the ground 50,000 times, which I guess makes sense."
Discussing what this marathon mission did to his body, Jack explained things at the 90,000-step milestone and confessed he'd severely underestimated how 'gruelling' it would be: "Considering for the last 14 hours I'd covered nearly 60 km, my body had actually held up not too bad."
Saying that his feet had been aching since about 20,000 steps, it was the 75,000 to 90,000 marker that was the hardest: "My feet were not really sore, and every step I was doing hurt. I think my ankles had swollen so my shoes were less comfortable. And the soles of my feet just felt well and truly battered by everything they'd been through."
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It was three hours later than he'd originally planned to finish, and there were still 10,000 steps left.
Referring to it as the most intense challenge he'd ever done and the most steps he'd ever walked/likely ever would walk again, Jack struggled even to get up a small hill to his car by the time he reached that all-important 100,000.
Showing off some gnarly blisters on his feet, he said anyone else wanting to try this should undertake some serious training beforehand. In reality, Jack had only upped his daily steps to 13,000 in the week before his challenge.
Looking at the stats, walking 100,000 steps took a whopping 15 hours and 28 minutes, covered 76.83 kilometers, and burned a jaw-dropping 8,678 calories. Although Jack previously saw some impressive changes to his health by upping his daily step count, something tells us walking 100,000 steps isn't going to become part of his regular routine.