So in late February I think, early March maybe, can't remember, I got a fitbit from a promotion at work, they run team challenges which my team lost by only a few thousand steps recently. It was when I was traveling back to Pittsburgh a couple times for my father and I was off of my routine.
I've already been active but I thought it would be cool to measure it, it's worked out ok so far. I'm not walking for longevity, I just want to be fit, active and it's been helping with my weight loss program. I'm at 225 now, 6 pants sizes down from last year, and a new wardrobe later. Shooting for 200 and another new wardrobe at this point.
I do shoot for 10 steps mostly because it's a target and the fitbit is kind of a good reminder of that, to get there but with the weather lately (it's still snowing here, and been snowing and raining for the last two weeks) it's hard to get out, walking in the cold rain sucks and I can't do gyms, I don't like that subculture.
$#@!ing weather... so much for the desert
10k steps is just short of 5 miles and I can walk 20k steps if the weather is decent. Hot and dry preferably for me but if it's cold and wet I really get tired and crampy easy.
Even with the $#@!ty weather my 7-day average right now is 9,300 steps. I try to walk to and from work which is roughly a 10 mile round trip or so if I get some walking in between. Been off and on with that plan with the weather, I should have walked in today but I didn't, needed my truck for an errand.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-steps-per-day
There's nothing magical about the number 10,000.
In fact, the idea of walking at least 10,000 steps a day for health goes back decades to a marketing campaign launched in Japan to promote a pedometer. And, in subsequent years, it was adopted in the U.S. as a goal to promote good health. It's often the default setting on fitness trackers, but what's it really based on?
"The original basis of the number was not scientifically determined," says researcher I-Min Lee of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
She was curious to know how many steps you need to take a day to maintain good health and live a long life, so she and her colleagues designed a study that included about 17,000 older women. Their average age was 72. The women all agreed to clip on wearable devices to track their steps as they went about their day-to-day activities.
It turns out that women who took about 4,000 steps per day got a boost in longevity, compared with women who took fewer steps. "It was sort of surprising," Lee says.
In fact, women who took 4,400 steps per day, on average, were about 40 percent less likely to die during the follow-upperiod of about four yearscompared with women who took 2,700 steps. The findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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