Step count from riding golf

DonM · 2022-09-22T20:15:21+00:00

I often keep my phone in my pocket while golfing in order to get step counts. It’s amazing how many steps you get even in a cart/ buggy.

Typhoon

KCee What I hate about the watch is when we're hanging out on the patio after with lunch and a few beers the watch beeps loudly and I look at it thinking I forgot to turn the GPS off, but it says "MOVE!". WTF?

It’s telling you to drink faster. The way the watch works too is it’ll convert how many beers you drank to “miles walking “

scotts33

Step counters apps on cell phones are totally inaccurate. They're for folks that want to think they are doing something rather than nothing at all. ☺ The only thing they are good for is to track yourself one time to the next and see how much difference. GPS activated activity trackers or cell phones using apps like MapMyWalk, MapMyRun, bicycling with MapMyRide measure distance that is accurate and the real way to know along with gait to really know how much distance you are walking and what rate.

Real pedometers are the only way to count steps. 😉

DonM

scotts33 I’m sure that’s true. I apply a big margin of error. 😑

Four of us walk a couple of miles a few mornings a week, and at the end we all have different readings by quite a bit.

Typhoon

Do an experiment. Put an Apple Watch on an infant in a stroller. Take him for a walk and see how many miles he walked🙄

garyt1957

I don't have any type of step counter but agree that you still walk quite a bit whil using a cart, especially on a nicer course where you can't get within 30-50 yards of a green and that can be extremely up or down hill. Throw in how many times you walk in from 100 yards or so . or walking to your ball while your cart partner takes the cart and it all adds up.

DonM

garyt1957 That’s all I was trying to point out. Non golfers crap on riding golf as exercise. (Like my doctor). But between the steps and the swings it’s pretty decent.

garyt1957

DonM That’s all I was trying to point out. Non golfers crap on riding golf as exercise. (Like my doctor). But between the steps and the swings it’s pretty decent.

All I know is I'm pretty pooped after riding 18 on some courses

scotts33

On average around 1400 kcal burned walking 18. Riding cart around 800 kcal. This is all average. Doing anything outdoors is better than nothing and living a sedentary lifestyle.

Par4QC

If ya'll gotta count steps, for anything other than measuring acreage, you have other problems that need more attention.

JMHO 😄

Par4QC

garyt1957 All I know is I'm pretty pooped after riding 18 on some courses

Me too. Plain. Wore. Out. 😄

After working for Holiday Inn over 23+ years, I think I'm done with the walking. 1st was a 300 room joint, on 2 levels, which means it was s p r e a d out. The last(19 yrs.+) was 175 rooms on 8 floors, plus basement shop, plus boiler room on 9th floor, and then there was the rooftop/heliport above that. Elevators, yes, but not always the case. Stairwells maintained daily. Hallways walked always. Parking lot. Plus, there were other businesses & a restaurant in the building which means it was spread out. Wore the soles off shoes and most of the time was walking on carpets!! I don't need no 'counter' to tell me I walked several miles every day I was there.
I once had a lady ask me if I worked out, after looking at my legs/thighs/calves. My wife went into hysterics!! 😅

Spartan

garyt1957 All I know is I'm pretty pooped after riding 18 on some courses

We have one course I don't like playing when it's cart path only. The cart paths are often a ways from the fairway and it's often higher than the fairway so you have a climb back to the cart. It just wears me out. The pro shop told me once that they get a lot of cancellations when it's cart path only.

Weirfan

I try to walk most of the time , My course has some long traverses between tees so typically over 13,000 steps and I dont spray it around much.

Still easier than a typical 8 hour backshop shift when I am always between 20 and 25,000 steps

mulegolf

Rickochet A bud of mine hated wearing a watch period. I talked him into a Bushnell GPS watch and he never even noticed it once he started playing with it.

Same thing happened with me. I never wear a watch anymore. If I need to know what time it is, I look at my phone.
Then I got a Garmin GPS watch. It felt a little weird at first but now I don't even notice it's on my wrist unless I look to see
how far away the green or a layup yardage is.

garyt1957

I forgot my GPS watch awhile back and even on the 18th hole I was still glancing at my wrist for a watch that wasn't there, it's so ingrained now

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