Walking 10,000 Steps a Day: Desirable Goal or Urban Myth?

According to the link, 10,000 steps puts one in the 5 mile range. Depending on pace that puts most healthy folk in the 60-90 minute range. For the less-than-healthy, aged and easily distracted, that could be a couple hours. Is it possible, sure. Does it fit into most people's time priorities, probably not.

I just do a lot of my chores less "mechanically assisted." Ancient Chinese proverb "A fat man should give up his gym membership and riding lawn mower for a walk behind push powered mower."


https://www.chparks.com/411/How-To-Measure-Steps#:~:text=An%20average%20person%20has%20a%20stride%20length%20of,only%20average%201%2C000%20to%203%2C000%20steps%20a%20day.

Walking definitely improves your health (both physical and mental) but 10000 is not necessarily the right goal for everyone. Mine is closer to 12,000 and includes a mandatory 30 min of aerobic exercise daily

If it gets people up off their fat arses 10,000 sounds like a good start.