10,000 Steps A Day
VS. Brisk 30-Minute Walk
Comparison Between 10,000 Steps A Day & The
Brisk 30-Minute Walk
Walking 10,000 steps a day for fitness is probably the most
significant new lifestyle and fitness trend since we understand
the importance of health.
We all understand that we should walk, but, we are busy,
and how many steps we should walk anyway? Is 10,000 steps
a day better than taking a brisk 30-minute walk?
Professor Dixie Lee Thompson, who is an exercise physiologist
at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says it is all
that, and more:
During the study of a span of four-week of steppers and brisk
walkers, Thompson said that the 10,000-Steps-A-Day group tended
to walk more and to do it more frequently. Her results proved
that this exercise is better at getting the inactive people
to get active?
Washington Post columnist, John Briley, on University of
Tennessee’s
10,000-step research, finds out that:
The researchers pointed out that the brisk walkers had to
block out time for a continuous 30-minute march while the
pedometricians were free to walk as long as they want at any
time.
Those 10,000 steppers were told not to worry about intensity,
while the other group was told to walk briskly, which became
an order that may have dissuaded some from hitting the pavement
sometimes. Perhaps for this reason, four women quit the brisk-marcher
group, while none of the step-counters dropped out.
10,000 steps a day is considered the same as walking for about
five miles, the equivalent of walking about five miles, depending
on the length of your pace. By average, a person is estimated
to walk less than 6,000 steps a day. Some experts consider
you to be inactive if you walk 3,000 steps, or less, a day
while there are others that define inactive as less than 5,000
steps. The one thing that does not seem to be in argument
is that 10,000 steps a day, most days, is optimal for maintaining
good health.
We might be busy everyday, but, we should make it a point
to exercise and count on them to maintain our daily health
maintenance? We have to make the effort to add steps, but
think of it this way, as long as you are not on the sofa all
day, you are on your way to fitness!
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