The Bizare Origins Of The 10k-Steps-A-Day Goal
4 min readOct 1, 2022
How Many Steps Do We Really Need?
I’ll fully admit I have been completely on board with the 10k-steps-a-day advice since I first heard about it many years ago. Promptly buying myself a pedometer to track my steps. Yes, it was that long ago!!! This number has been swung around for literal decades, way before smartphones and watches were a thing.
