Man shares brutal physical impact of walking 100,000 steps in one day
Most of us are content with anywhere near 10,000 steps a day but a YouTuber decided to go for the jugular by adding another zero.
Walking and running are massively popular right now, especially since people have the capacity to film themselves while they do it or send me annoying Strava updates about their ridiculously long run.
You can't really blame content creators when it's often the ridiculous ideas that do best (just ask billionaire YouTuber Mr Beast), and that sometimes means putting your body through hell in exchange for views.
The Hardest Geezer decided to run all of Africa across many months, which was obviously an insane challenge, but fellow creator Jack Massey Welsh decided to condense all of his suffering into just one day.
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His goal was to walk 100,000 steps, and as you can imagine, his body wasn't too happy with him for it.
While walking more than 20k steps while you're exploring a foreign city while on holiday in nice temperatures, ice cream in hand, might sound lovely, doing five times that in England is enough to put anyone off walking.
Welsh, who boasts over 700k followers on the video-sharing platform, had already managed to do 250,000 footsteps in the space of a week, leading to some 'surprising' differences in his physique, but clearly wasn't satisfied with 'just' that.
Back in 2025, he set off at 6am with the goal of completing the six-figure number in the space of one day, and he shared the brutal impact it had on him.
When he reached 25,000 steps, he complained: "My back's starting to ache a bit, my aches in my ankles have just gotten slightly worse, but it's all still kind of okay.
"I think we're going to be fine, but I am feeling it a bit now. The fatigue is definitely setting in."
The pain was only just beginning for Jack however and after 75,000 steps, it seemed as if finishing the challenge wouldn't be easy.
He added: "My feet had obviously been aching since about 20,000 steps onwards, but it was my final 15,000 steps that were 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."
However, he was finally able to complete the challenge after a solid 15 hours, 28 minutes, and 22 seconds of walking almost non-stop, which isn't exactly how most of us would spend a day off.
He concluded: "I was so exhausted, I couldn't even get up a small hill to get back to the car. When we got home, taking my shoes off was certainly a challenge.
James Moorhouse