>Why do most people fail to walk even the 10,000 daily steps needed to stay healthy?
Where does that figure come from? A lazy guestimate of 1m/stride puts that at 10km/day. That's 2 hours of walking a day. Who the hell spends 2 hours a day walking?
Where does that figure come from? A lazy guestimate of 1m/stride puts that at 10km/day. That's 2 hours of walking a day. Who the hell spends 2 hours a day walking?
1) Its downright difficult to get thru even the laziest day without 4000 or so steps
2) 10K means you "exercised" perhaps an hour. I'm not talking about sprint training but went out for a walk, hiking, etc. Half hour at lunchtime won't quite do it (maybe if you speedwalk?)
3) Its really easy to leave the GD thing in your pocket and wash it. Although running thru a dryer cycle immediately will fix it.
4) low power BT is kind of like NFC. There's apple products, and a couple android devices claim to half A support it but in reality it doesn't work. So in real world practice its apple or nothing for NFC and low power BT aka BT 4.0. And its been that way for some years.
Not to mention the trips to the washroom/photocopier/kitchen/whatever. It's not hard to do, especially if you avoid driving when you can. There are lots of people who spend 2 hours a day driving, yet oddly that doesn't seem as crazy to you?
I did find two studies related to amount of walking to show health benefits:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00007256-199723050-...
http://wlv.openrepository.com/wlv/handle/2436/11110
No mention of number of steps. I think people add it for a way to equate a certain amount of time walking.
http://walking.about.com/od/measure/f/10000steps.htm
FWIW I live in central DC and walk for about 90% of my total trips (although I have a sedentary job and a short commute), and the moves app says I go roughly 3mi/day, which squares with my intuition looking at a map.
Or maybe run for 45 minutes, or walk to work, or go swimming or do a ton of other physical activities I am not going to bother listing.
Personally I ride mountain bikes in every way possible, and time permitting also as often as possible.
Having several family members with fit bits, I can tell you it's definitely do-able. It adds up more quickly than you think!
Healthy people.
My Fitbit defaults to wanting to see 10k steps a day, and 5 miles a day, which is more than 10k steps for my stride. My daily average steps is a bit over 8400 (including jogging for a bit less than 5k twice a week or so), and my average mileage is 3.8. I typically take one walk a day during work, for maybe 1000 steps.
I keep forgetting I've put it to charge and never put it on.
I try to bike to work every day and/or walk about 5km in addition to anything else I do (work, lifting weights, etc).
I don't measure (anymore). I just try to move my body as much as I can when I can.