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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 10 yo gets around 20,000 on a normal summer day. He doesn’t wear it for his one hour swim team practice or in the pool.[/quote]

Outlier. And younger.[/quote]

NP- are 10 yo boys that much more active than 12 yos? [/quote]

No. I have a 10 year old and a 12 year old.  Both boys are very active.  My husband and I exercise daily.  The boys have always seen it and we often do physical activities together.  I actively have played sports with my kids in the backyard/park since they were young.

The camp they are currently in, is more academic this month===just a short period of gym or outdoor time.  But--every night they want to go the local park to play pick-up soccer and I have to literally drag them home after 2.5 hours.  They play the sport competitively year-round and their training sessions have very little rest time.  The older one plays the full 90 minutes in games----that is a helluva lot of running.

The 12-year old started mowing lawns for $ this summer--so there is that added activity too.  Little one swims a lot with friends outside of camp.

I read that the average American child has the activity level of a 60-year old adult in 1970.  Kids this day and age are so much more out of shape than those of us born in the 70s.  We lived outside in the summer----and I grew up here in the hot and humid misery---but we were always running, biking, swimming, etc.[/quote]

My 8yr old is much more active than my 12yr old and my 12yr old plays travel soccer year round. We all track steps through our watches and today is gorgeous. My 8yr old is at 25K steps. 12yr old is at 15k. My 8yr old won't spend a second in front a screen.[/quote]

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