The 10,000 Steps Myth
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week we're digging into the weird history of an omnipresent fitness goal. Episode comes free with a happy meal.
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Links!
- 10,000 Steps: A Brief History
- Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?
- A Japanese first-mover in the fitness wearables race
- Counting Every Step You Take
- When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
- McDonald's Enlists Trainer To Help Sell Its New Meal
- Get happy with McDonald's Go Active Happy Meal for adults
- McDonald's Stepometer
- McDonald's pushing salads and pedometers
- The fight for healthier McDonald's Happy Meals
- Step-It Canadian TV ad
- McDonald's serves up Happy Meals for grow-ups
- McDonald's removes fitness tracker from Happy Meals
- A Very Serious Review of McDonald’s Flesh-Burning Fitness Tracker
- McDonald’s quietly ended controversial program that was making parents and teachers uncomfortable
- Watch your step: why the 10,000 daily goal is built on bad science
- When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
- Why Counting Your Steps Could Make You Unhappier
- How many steps are enough?
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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| 0:00.0 | I have one. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh! |
| 0:14.0 | Come to me this morning. |
| 0:15.0 | That's very fun. |
| 0:17.0 | Uh, welcome to Maintenance Faze. |
| 0:19.0 | The podcast you can count on. |
| 0:21.0 | That's great! |
| 0:22.0 | Isn't it actually legitimately good? |
| 0:24.0 | I think it's the first good one that I've had since we started this show. |
| 0:28.0 | Look, it's no inconvenient tooth. |
| 0:31.0 | What? |
| 0:32.0 | One's every 20 episodes, one of us just has to nail it. |
| 0:37.0 | Uh, you're Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:39.0 | You're Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:40.0 | And everyone in the world in the show. |
| 0:42.0 | Wait, I did it too fast. |
| 0:43.0 | I did it. |
| 0:44.0 | I was like, do you want to just take it this time? |
| 0:46.0 | That's fine. |
| 0:47.0 | Wait, let me do it. |
| 0:48.0 | I'll do it. |
| 0:49.0 | I'll do it. |
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