Today's 10-minute walk, at least for me, is happening on the front end of a pretty busy day.

I've got a schedule, a calendar, it looks to be pretty well packed from the time I finish this walk until dinner time

later tonight. But I can't imagine beginning a day without a walk

without a walk with you 10,000 steps is the gold standard when it comes to goals if you are walking

for fitness I remember when I got my first Fitbit more than 10 years ago on day one, it's like I'm going to walk 10,000 steps, because that's what everybody does.

I'm going to walk 10,000 steps. How do you feel about the 10,000 step goal? Today, I want to talk about why 10,000 steps is a terrible goal.

Brief history, we like big round numbers. So that's one of the reasons why 10,000 steps is a terrible goal. Brief history, we like big round numbers.

That's one of the reasons why 10,000 steps is the gold standard.

But it actually has its roots in the mid-60s.

A Japanese marketing campaign for a pedometer.

They named the pedometer, and I can't recall what it is in Japanese, but it meant 10,000-step meter.

That marketing campaign was super, super successful.

And so 10,000 steps stuck as a goal.

You have this meter, you walk 10,000 steps.

You do that every day.

For years, that goal had very little science or research behind it.

We just assumed that 10,000 steps, that's a lot.

That's healthy, that's good, let's make that the goal.

And then some research started coming out indicating, you know, you really don't need 10,000 steps.

7,500 steps is really all you need.

After that, things start to plateau in terms of the health benefits.

Well, they continued doing research,

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