"Take 10,000 steps a day" is a common number for many people to set or suggest other people's sports goals. In order to understand whether 10,000 steps a day is really beneficial to health, Parade's reporter Jocelyn Solis-Moreira a...
"Take 10,000 steps a day" is a common number for many people to set or suggest other people's sports goals. In order to understand whether 10,000 steps a day is really beneficial to health, Parade's reporter Jocelyn Solis-Moreira actually measured 10,000 steps a day in March this year. A month later, she discovered that this goal brought changes to her body, and she also experienced no powerful effect in reducing weight. According to Parade, Joe Lin said that she never exercises by walking. She would go to the gym for weight training, but she was afraid of running. Although she would sometimes walk on the trail with her friends, she did not think she was hiking. Usually the average number of steps a day is between 1,000 and 3,000 steps.
Joinlin said that she often hears the saying of walking 10,000 steps a day, and knows that walking a certain amount of steps every day can reduce weight and promote mental health. She also heard that a woman lost 95 pounds by walking, which is very intimidating, which makes her decide to try to take 10,000 steps a day in March and record the changes in her body.
Zhu Lin said that the first week was the "adjustment period". She tested the best time, location and speed of walking. Her walking ambition disappeared on the third day, and there was a sound of giving up in her heart. However, she still completed the goal of walking 10,000 steps a day, but she often delayed it until the last two or three hours of the day to complete it. This seems to be a very common feeling for those who are carrying out this challenge.
Zoinlin said that sports physiologist Milica McDowell said that many studies point out that 10,000 of these numbers will make participants retreat because they take a lot of time and have high tolerance for bones and muscles. She thought this statement was correct. After walking for a few days, she felt that her calf was very tight and her lower back was very tender. It was not until the last two days that week that her body was more suitable.
Zhu Lin said that she still delayed the second week and often completed her goal late at night. She decided to walk only without training. She also told many friends that she was walking challenges due to work, building a sense of responsibility, so that she could be more persistent in the goal. Her friends also became cheerleading teams, and good friends accompanied her. If she had been on the sand for too long, her family would laugh at her.
At the end of the second week, Joe Lin still delayed completing her goal. The devil voice in her heart wanted her to leave was still there, but the frequency decreased. She also found that her energy exploded after each walk, and she would do some additional exercises. In addition, she found that her emotions improved during the day and she could easily fall asleep at night.
The third and fourth days of the Zhou Dynasty, Joe Lin, found that her endurance had improved, her thoughts became clearer, her mood was happier, and her body was stronger and stronger. She was eager to achieve her goal than before, and she turned into walking when she got up. From procrastination to walking five to ten minutes per hour. She often walked five to six thousand steps by four o'clock in the afternoon.
Zoinlin said that a month later she found that her body had improved, and her shoulders and back were no longer as sturdy as before, but her body weight changed from 165.1 pounds to 167.6 pounds, which shocked her because her body weight did not decrease but increased. She later found that after using a body weight that could provide various body data, she found that her body fat was not changing, but her muscle mass increased by 1.7%, higher than the level of her body type.
Zozilin said that after her body was walking 10,000 steps a month a day, there was no significant change in what people claimed, but her mental health and overall mood had changed well, and her muscle mass also increased. She said that research has pointed out that setting a long-term sports goal will make people move more often, even if they don’t reach the goal every time, so she believes that she can book a goal of taking 10,000 steps a day, but if she doesn’t achieve it, you don’t have to be discouraged.
Zozilin said that another thing she learned was that 10,000 steps were out of reach, but it was actually feasible. She walked 7,000 to 10,000 steps a day in April, and the last thing she learned was that her body was far stronger than she thought.
