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How to get your steps in
Walk, walk, and keep on walking. There are many ways to get short and long walks into your day.
- Try parking farther from the grocery store than usual.
- March in place between Zoom meetings.
- Get off the subway a stop earlier and walk home.
- Choose the stairs over the escalator.
- Take your dog on a longer stroll.
Doing 300 minutes of brisk walking a week will be similar to 150 minutes of light-to-moderate intensity exercise. That is only 45 minutes of walking a day.
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Setting your unique step goal
Everyone's activity needs are different depending on their fitness goals. On average, inactive people will take about 5,000 steps per day, active people between 7,500 and 10,000 steps and very active people over 12,500 steps per day.
Determine your fitness goals:
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History of the 10,000 step rule
In the 1960s, professor Yoshiro Hatano invented the 10,000 step rule after he became interested in figuring out the most impactful method for preventing heart disease and obesity.
Hatano theorised that taking 10,000 steps a day, the equivalent of about five miles, would re...
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