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I tested that viral claim that 10,000 steps a day is a myth, and my own numbers surprised me
Saw a video last month saying you only need 4,000 steps for real health gains, so I tracked mine for 30 straight days with a $24 pedometer from Walmart. Turns out I average just 2,800 on workdays, way under both numbers, and I felt fine the whole time. The video cited one small study from 2021 and skipped that it only looked at adults over 60 in Japan. My dad hit 11,000 a day for years and still needed a stent at 62. So what is the actual cutoff, and does anyone have a tracker that counts steps right when you push a shopping cart?
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quinn16125d ago
My uncle walked 5 miles a day for 20 years and dropped dead at 70 anyway, so I stopped trusting step counts as some magic number. For the cart thing though, my old Fitbit always read way low when I was pushing a buggy, something about the arm not swinging.
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