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Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-the-optimal-number-of-daily-steps-for-longevity-and-its-not-10000

Conventional wisdom would have us believe the journey to a long and healthy life begins with 10,000 steps.

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Chobbes

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It’s really funny (in a good way!) that you somehow missed the whole step counter thing and thought people are manually counting steps, haha. But yeah, as others have mentioned phones can act like pedometers, and this is also one of the main features people use on Apple Watches and fitbits and stuff (along with the heart rate sensor on those devices). It’s kind of useful to just get a sense of how active you are throughout the day, and having a step goal can be a nice little motivator to get out of the house sometimes.

rhythmisaprancer

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Part of what was confusing for me was that there was this person, Bob Marshall, who was known for counting a lot of things while out hiking, and then logging the data. Something like "at 458 paces I came across a stream in which there were four large boulders and a log jam just upstream of the crossing consisting of five logs and 17 branches. At 1,209 paces I saw a Robin's nest with three eggs..." He was almost certainly on a spectrum but he died nearly 100 years ago.

Anyway, looked at some apps, I hike for work in season and would like to match that now. These programs seem ideal for that since I am limited to the streets mostly rn.