{"id":2796,"date":"2019-08-31T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2023-08-27T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:49:54","slug":"in-defense-of-ten-thousand-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/31\/in-defense-of-ten-thousand-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Ten Thousand Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1417\" height=\"1378\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2.png?fit=840%2C817\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2.png 1417w, https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2-768x747.png 768w, https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2-1024x996.png 1024w, https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2-1200x1167.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I know perfectly well that those 10,000 steps the fitness trackers push is a fake goal.&nbsp; Know where it comes from?&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the sixties, a company in Japan was trying to sell\npedometers.&nbsp; 10,000 is an auspicious\nnumber in the Japanese culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boom, there\u2019s the genesis of the 10,000-step goal right there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also fashionable lately for articles to talk about this and how 10,000 Steps isn\u2019t a scientifically-based metric for good physical fitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know what?&nbsp; They\u2019re right.&nbsp; It\u2019s not.&nbsp;\nIt\u2019s not based on any science at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know what else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measurable goals can be useful.&nbsp; I know of one person who never, and I mean <em>never<\/em> misses her daily walk of about 40 minutes (give or take).&nbsp; Like, never <strong>ever<\/strong> misses it.&nbsp; She doesn\u2019t because she has a fitness tracker that gives her a measurable goal.  She can see every day whether or not she took that walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you know what else?&nbsp;\nGetting in well over 250 exercise minutes a week is <strong>absolutely<\/strong> a\nhealth benefit based on scientific research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, those 10,000 steps are arbitrary.&nbsp; However, most people who make a specific effort\nto get in that many steps are probably taking in a few nice walks every week to\nhit that goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, my friends, is not so arbitrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know perfectly well that those 10,000 steps the fitness trackers push is a fake goal.&nbsp; Know where it comes from?&nbsp; Back in the sixties, a company in Japan was trying to sell pedometers.&nbsp; 10,000 is an auspicious number in the Japanese culture. Boom, there\u2019s the genesis of the 10,000-step goal right there. It\u2019s also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/31\/in-defense-of-ten-thousand-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Defense of Ten Thousand Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,48],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-10000-steps","tag-fitness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-08-31-14-30-16-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}