Who Decided 10,000 Steps?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Why is 10,000 steps every day such a popular goal? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares the origin story of 10,000 steps.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent. |
| 0:07.0 | Walking along a road right now, right next to some grass that's being watered early in the morning. |
| 0:14.0 | Maybe you can even hear the sprinkler. |
| 0:16.0 | I love how they have these. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm maybe three, two feet from the sprinkler, which is putting off a pretty powerful spray of water. |
| 0:25.8 | It's all going in the other direction, and they've got it positioned just perfectly, so here on the road, |
| 0:31.5 | just as I say that, I'm walking past a wet area, so clearly it does spray onto the road, |
| 0:37.1 | so I'm going to move past this quickly |
| 0:40.0 | because I really don't want to get wet. So Ava and I were walking on the beach the other day. |
| 0:46.0 | It was actually an early evening walk. It was beautiful. It was gorgeous. We walk on a section of |
| 0:52.7 | the beach that has a couple of piers. The peers are about a mile apart. And we were approaching one of the peers. And Ava says to me, she says, how far do you think that pier is from where we are right now in distance? How far? And I'm really bad at figuring that sort of thing out. |
| 1:13.7 | And knowing that the two peers are about a mile apart, I looked at where we were in relation |
| 1:21.6 | to the pier behind us, the further pier, and looked at the pier up ahead and said, I think we are a quarter of a mile, |
| 1:32.2 | 0.25 miles from the pier. |
| 1:37.7 | And she looked at her garment, which I guess can track exact distance. |
| 1:44.5 | And we continued walking to the pier, got to the pier, and I nailed it. |
| 1:50.6 | I mean, not even close. |
| 1:53.3 | I nailed it. |
| 1:54.7 | That never, never happens. |
| 1:56.9 | I was feeling pretty good about myself. |
| 2:01.6 | So 10,000 steps, 10,000 steps. |
| 2:04.6 | It's sort of the gold standard walking goal, |
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