11/08/2023
10,000 steps - not needed?! 🤔🚶🏼♀️
We’ve known for a long time that the number of 10,000 for steps was purely chosen for its purpose of being a good marketing campaign for the Japanese olympics in 1964. With no real evidence or science to support it other than it sounded good…
This is why there has to be more nuance around how many steps someone does per day.
So how do we interpret this information moving forward?
If you’re looking to get more active, perhaps one of your goals is to lose weight or just increase your activity levels for a number of reasons, then aim to just do MORE than what you’re currently doing.
Currently averaging 3000 steps a day? Aim for 5000.
If you’re super active anyway, reducing to 10,000 steps is likely to have negative impacts on your health as it’ll be a reduction in activity. So in that case, continue with your daily activity level or aim to have a slight increase.
Focus on factoring in strength training, an increase in protein and vegetables and prioritising sleep… because you probably have your activity levels nailed.
In short, this is nothing new… aim to increase your activity levels and stop aiming for 10,000 steps if this is totally unattainable for you 👣
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