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10,000 steps a day…The benefits

As promised in the last post, here is a bit more information about the health benefits of walking 10,000 steps a day.

History

About 40 years ago in Japan the idea was developed that walking 10,000 steps a day will help you keep fit and healthy without the need for additional exercise. So ideally, between the first plundering steps to the bathroom in the morning, to the last few as we crawl into bed at night, we should have walked 10,000 steps, which is roughly 5 miles or 8 kilometres.

Getting to 10,000 steps a day

A fat bloke and 10,000 steps a day

I’m too fat.

Ok, I’m not at the “firemen with hoists taking a wall out of my house so I can get out and go to McDonalds” stage, but I could do with losing maybe a stone, maybe two.

My problems are threefold; a love of sweets and chocolate, a sedentary occupation and extreme laziness. We eat well at home; proper meals and I don’t drink much, so it comes down to exercise.

Hello..

This is the first post on my new blog.

If I’m honest, I have no idea how it will all turn out, but let’s give it a go anyway, eh?

Let me give you the concept first. Last year, around Christmas time, I was asked if I had any new years’ resolutions. Off the top of my head, I said “I want to earn more and weigh less”.