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Day 10 of my exercises completed. This morning I snuck into my MIL's back room, which is like a sun room/family room, and did them there. So much space! I think I will continue this from now on. She isn't up early so I'm not disturbing her, and she's said she doesn't mind me using the space.
Yesterday I set a target of 2500 steps and we were busy at work so I ended up doing 6129. It won't be anything like that today because I'll be standing at a bench hand stretching pizza bases and cutting dough.
Have a lovely day!
Fun fact about daily steps, you don't actually have to get 10k steps a day. It's recommended you get 6k - 8k steps a day to see improvements. Anything more it just plateaus.
Hey you're right, I remember reading something about it being a setting on a brand of pedometer, or the Japanese symbol for 10,000 looks like a walking man or something like that. Thank goodness, I think that'd be pushing it ATM!
So from what I've heard, or at least from the podcasts I listen to, it was created after the Tokyo Olympics in the 50s(?) and they kind of just landed on 10k. They say that, yeah the kanji symbol for 10k looks like a walking man, or that 10k has some form of symbolic reference.
I felt very justified when I heard that because my partner often said I shouldn't aim for 6k steps a day, but hehehe, jokes on them.
No it doesn't. I get minimum 20k steps/day, and I get other guys (as well as the occasional woman) telling me I have nice legs. You may get diminishing returns above 6k, but more is better.
Congratulations, but it does. Here's a SMH article about it. Here's a NYT article that was linked in the SMH article (archive.org because of the paywall). And here's another SMH article about it, that was also linked in the first SMH article.
That's great that you get 20k+ steps a day, not saying that 10k steps is bad for you, you just don't get any more added benefits if you do that many steps. Besides, the whole 10k steps thing is kind of bullshit anyways because not everyone can do 10k steps. There are people who take shorter steps, so a 30minute walk might be 2k steps compared to someone who takes larger steps. There's elderly people, or kids. Everyone has different mobility levels.
Again, that's awesome that you get 20k steps a day. But for some people it's not feesable, and the literature is out there. Doing 10k steps is great, but you don't get any added benefits if you do more than 8k.
I've read the cited study. It's about longevity specifically - you're unlikely to live longer by taking more than 7,000 steps per day. It says nothing about other benefits, or lack thereof. I know I'm fitter, have better lung capacity, better endurance, better pain tolerance from putting up with blisters on my feet, etc. from covering big distances consistently. Judging from comments, it's good for my appearance, too.
You are doing so well. I'm not doing well with being consistant. I'm trying to work out the best time to add the weights workout into my routine, but it does not fit easily. I somewhat like doing it after work, but working 12 hour days makes it hard. On my days off I tend to get wrapped up in ongoing projects and not get to it. I want to find a time that will work to make a firm committment to myself to do it, not having a specific time means I keep putting it off.
I hear you on the whole fitting it in thing. Maybe cut yourself a little slack, I mean 12 hour days.. holy moly! It's hard to fit anything in let alone exercise!
I can manage to fit in eating, walking the dog and sleeping, anything else is a bit of a stretch! I do get more days off though which is pretty nice. It just makes it hard to work out things like weights routines that don't really fit the schedule, especially as they are generally organised on the basis of a 7 day week which I don't do.
Youd be surprised how many steps you can still get through doing an activity like that
Hey man you're right! Turns out I've done over 6000 steps so far. Huh.
Keep meaning to ask - what exercises are you doing? I need to get back into a routine myself.
I downloaded an app called Fitness Coach and, seeing as I'm not very cardio fit, set it to a beginner level on a 30 day body shred program. It's pretty simple and has some in app purchases but I'm just using the free things in it. It's working for me so far.
Ta muchly. ๐