The Bizare Origins Of The 10k-Steps-A-Day Goal
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.
Now our devices have the 10k target set in as the gold standard, but where did it actually come from?
In a world where we are sitting more and doing less manual jobs, it’s important to remain mindful of how much we are moving on a day-to-day basis.
I still to this day work with clients to help them increase their daily movement for better health and weight loss results, because of the fact that many of us now spend most of our time sitting for hours at a computer.
None Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) is an important part of the weight loss equation, and so it’s one of the key recommendations I always want to help clients move closer towards.
