In so many ways, this advice for 10,000 steps is akin to the association of larger belts with disease risk and mortality. Without a doubt, people who wear larger belts--on average--suffer higher rates of all manner of diseases and die sooner, so do we give them smaller belts and assume that will fix it? There's no doubt that walking is a healthful human activity that we've done for all our upright-walking millennia and doing it will make you fitter for walking. But absent the appropriate dietary changes it won't necessarily make you 'well' and it likely won't help you lose weight. In fact, it will likely make you hungrier and you'll eat more of the bad diet you were already on and you'll end up even Steven on calories in and out. 

Diet is the great leveler of the wellness playing field. Our stance for 30+ years has always been to get nutrition right first with a whole food diet of meat, fish, poultry, eggs, game, nuts and seeds, some dairy, low-starch veggies, and low sugar fruits--level the playing field--and then do resistance exercise to further improve glucose utilization. Walking (or any other aerobic exercise unless done at high intensity) is a mild fat burning activity, which is fine but not nearly effective for anyone trying to correct metabolic dysfunction. To improve metabolic fitness, you must also participate in vigorous anaerobic exercise that demands the muscles use glucose. Focusing on getting in 10,000 steps on a Fitbit (which can be falsely reached by arm swinging in place) is a spurious measure.

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Great article! Following the CF daily newsletter, but only occasionally reading the articles. :X

Great article! It’s very interesting to know the background of the “10 000 steps” theory. 

Great article!  Didn’t know the history of 10,000 steps to better health before.  Also greatly enjoyed reading about the studies and conclusions.  I found this article so interesting that I sent it to all of my coaches and family to read too.  Love this stuff.

Thanks to whoever thought to post this.  Beautiful.  And I’m glad I gave it a listen.

While I appreciate the symmetry of 10,000 steps, as opposed to say 8,9567, I have always found the idea of walking 10,000 steps a day, merely to satisfy an arbitrary recommendation, a misguided effort. I have no idea why fitness trackers have become so popular, but I suspect that they are a painless substitute for intense movement. If I have already achieved my 10,000 effortless steps, then I don't need to perform a breathless 6 minute workout. It just isn't necessary because I have already satisfied my exercise requirements for the day. 
Coupled with that is the fact that corporate wellness programs are quick to use the 10,000 steps as means of incentivizing physical activity.  This usually comes in the form of some monetary award. Sadly, its just not quite enough, to propel the device users to any measurable level of fitness.
You know what I'd like to see? Daily WOD trackers. But then, most of us can count to one without assistance from a device.

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Good article Tyler. I never thought about the fast walking correlate before. Also never knew the history about the origin of the 10,000 step number.

Starting last July (or June, I can't remember), I decided to ban Fitbits/smart watches in addition to cell phones from our gym. It definitely was met with a lot of pushback at the start, and I still get a little bit here and there. I won't lie and say it's changed our gym, but I will say I'm much less distracted now without me glancing at their wrists every few seconds. Here's the post I made for it in September. It's mostly w/f safe.
Okay Here's the Fitbit/Phone Jail Post That's Long Overdue But Still Doesn't Say Much