YayaverNo, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.
Furao Sentu@yayaver well, yeah, obviously, but everyone wants me to do just all of those things. I have a hard time prioritizing one over the others. I heard the 10k steps are not as important as it's been advertized, but I suspect Netflix being behind that smear campaign. They already stated that their biggest competitor is 'sleep', their second biggest might just be 'going for a stroll', y'know!
Corinna Baldauf (she/her)@_ @yayaver The latest science says that 6000 steps/day is enough. After that the benefits flatten out. For me 6000 steps = 1 hour of walking which is much more doable for me than 10k steps.
Sorry, can't find my scource for this (and it would likely be in German 🤠)
PS: The 10k steps did not originate from science but from a Japanese company that sold a step tracker back in the... 70s(?)
Claudius Link@joannaholman mentioned a source for that
Joanna Holman (@[email protected])
Fun fact about the 10,000 steps a day bit of this: a lot of people seem to think that’s what science says they should be aiming for. It’s not. That number came from a Japanese fitness tracker manufacturer who thought it sounded good in their ad copy. Actual research suggests the benefits of extra steps tappers off for most people much lower than that https://stories.uq.edu.au/contact-magazine/uq-mythbusters-step-count/index.html