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Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day? - Shannon Odell
At this point, it’s commonly agreed that walking 10,000 steps per day is best for your health. But where did that number come from? Though we may think that decades of rigorous study went into finding the exact number of steps that would keep us fit, the truth is less scientific. Our daily step target originally came from ads for a Japanese pedomet
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Slowly increase this goal over time until you reach the Goldilocks spot of 8,000 steps per day or more, and enjoy walking your way to plenty of health benefits in the process.
Harry Bullmore • This is how many steps you should be walking a day, according to a walking expert
“If you want optimal benefits for the time you put in, you have most of the gain already if you’ve done 8,000 – then there are marginal or incremental gains beyond this point,” explains Dr Aguiar.
Harry Bullmore • This is how many steps you should be walking a day, according to a walking expert
sedentary activity for two weeks become more anxious, tired, and hostile. When adults are randomly assigned to reduce their daily step count, 88 percent become more depressed. Within one week of becoming more sedentary, they report a 31 percent decline in life satisfaction. The average daily step count required to induce feelings of anxiety and dep
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