10,000 steps
Posted: May 1, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, beginnings, Earth, exercise, Fire, goals, health, hiking, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: Cuyahoga Valley National Park, exercise, Health, Hiking, My Mountain Trail, nature, Outdoors, Pedometer, Photography, spring, trees, walking, woods 30 Comments
My Mountain Trail. Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Back in the 1960s, a team of researchers in Japan, led by Dr. Yoshiro Hatano, figured out that the average person walks about 3,500 to 5,000 steps a day. It was then recommended that if people were to walk 10,000 steps a day, you would have thinner, healthier people. The 10,000 steps program might also be related to Dr. Hatano’s marketing of a pedometer called the manpo-kei (meaning 10,000 steps meter).
Life in the Bogs 