8000 steps a day

🚶‍♂️For the longest time, we’ve been told to walk 10,000 steps per day. Well, apparently that was based on a marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer with no real science to back that up. Who knew 🤷 The fun part is that now we actually do have data to answer this question—from 50,000 people spanning 4 continents and published in The Lancet Public Health journal.

The advice that we take 10,000 steps a day is more a marketing accident than based on science. Taking far fewer may have notable benefits.

This post shares science-backed reasons why walking for weight loss is a great strategy.

10,000 Steps is a free physical activity program delivered by CQUniversity and proudly funded by the Queensland Government through Health and Wellbeing Queensland and Preventive Health SA, Government of South Australia.

When you're setting daily step goals, or need new ideas for how to increase your step count, here are 50 fun ways to get more steps during your day. I'll be showing you techniques like pacing while you brush your teeth and doing an additional lap of the supermarket. So hit those step count goals with these creative ways to increase daily steps