Mon, 26 May 2025 10:08:16 +0000

We’ve all heard the number — 10,000 steps a day.
It’s printed on watches, pushed in fitness apps, and thrown around like it’s the golden rule for staying fit.
But is it actually enough?

Let’s be real — 10,000 steps didn’t come from some groundbreaking science.
It started in Japan back in the ’60s as part of a marketing campaign for a pedometer called the manpo-kei, which literally means “10,000 step meter.”
People liked how it sounded. So it stuck.