Having a healthy, fit body without any effort, sweating, or diet change? Sounds almost too good to be true right? But that's exactly what you need to do if you're a few steps away. And that's exactly what my blog is about today.
To steps! To be more precise: around 10,000 steps .
10,000 steps is exactly the number of steps that a healthy, slim person needs to remove from a couch potato.
In the course of evolution, the human organism has adapted to the movement requirements of hunter, gatherer and crop cultures. Unfortunately, the range of motion also continued to decrease.
Numerous studies confirm the positive characteristics of an active life in motion.
"Only" 10,000 steps a day:
- Prevent diseases, eg obesity, hypertension, senile diabetes, heart attack, osteoporosis and cancer
- Help to cure or relieve illnesses such as adult onset diabetes, back pain and depression
- Help to lose weight
- Improve performance and fitness
- Contribute to physical and mental recovery / relaxation
It is all the more frightening that even most children and adolescents can not manage this number of steps. Not to mention the working adults.
The average man just made it to about 5,000 steps a day.
By comparison, a secretary manages to average about 1,200 steps, a teacher to about 3,000 and a postman to about 15,000.
So unless you're a postman, the 10,000-step thing does not look so easy.
What do you think, how many steps do you take during the day?
I must confess, in the beginning I slightly overestimated my number of steps. Sure, I have an office job, but I also have Dino (my dog), with whom I'm out 3x a day, and I go to the gym.
All the more astonished, I was able to see that on my sport-free days, I made it to just 8,000 steps a day. So it was still air oh up !!
Originally, it was only intended for my bike rides and long-distance runs to see how far I've run / drove and possibly in what time.
I have never paid much attention to the pedometer.
This is a feature that runs automatically in the background.
Also, if you want to, you will be reminded of the clock at regular intervals with a little beep tone when it's time to move again, which of course is great when working at the desk.
In addition to the Polar watch, there are other great tools that can record your steps. Of course, there are also differences in accuracy, but there it is worth it in advance to make smart times.
According to test reports, the Applewatch and the Fitbit should have done very well here.
Most smartphones have already integrated a pedometer with them today. Iphoe is hidden behind your health app.
Personally, I prefer to use my Polar watch. On the one hand because I feel the measurements of the clock a bit more accurate than that of my iPhone, on the other hand because I also often deliberately want to leave my cell phone at home. To always have to wear it on my body to get an overview of the steps would be impractical for me.
Here you just have to watch what works best for you.
It's really amazing how to motivate such a gimick in a simple way can go more steps a day.
When I lie on the sofa in the evening and see today I made 9,800 steps, then I like to go again just before the door and bring the garbage down and schwups 10,000 steps would be done! 🙂
More steps can be integrated in a simple way in everyday life you can for example:
- Get off a (bus / train) station before and run the rest to work
- finish your lunch break with a short walk
- take the stairs instead of the elevator / escalator
- start / end your strength training in the studio with a small cardio unit (30 minutes of cycling will be rewarded with 2,500 steps!)
- To go shopping (with fully packed backpack you have then also a small strength training unit on the way back integrated)
- arrange to meet with your friends to gem. Walking / Walking (and then only for coffee / cake ^^)
- Basically, start more with your bike and / or run
As you can see, it's not that hard.
And last but not least a motivation for you:
10,000 steps a day, 7 days a week, burns the equivalent of 2,000 - 3,000 Kcal. That would be about 500gr of fat that you just burn by the way per week or 2.000 - 3.000 Kcal you could eat more!
If that is not motivation?