Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Chances are that you have been told that you should log 10,000 steps per day by your fitness tracker.

But there is a new study out that challenged that magical number with some surprising results.

But let's start here.

There's a piece of fitness advice that you've likely heard so many times by now that you assume

it is scientific fact, the idea that you should strive to walk 10,000 steps per day.

But where did that number come from? And are 10,000 steps really the ideal count to rack up

on your pedometer every single day? When I think of this sage advice, well, I picture a smart

group of scientists with a battery

of test subjects and a bunch of treadmills and more than one calculator. They're all working

feverishly to crack the code on how many steps we should all be taking per day to be healthy,

fit, trim, and happy. Is that what you pictured too? Well, sadly, that's not an

accurate picture. Instead, imagine a Don Draper-style fellow in 1965 Japan, doodling on a piece

of paper trying to come up with a hooky name for a new device. That device was a pedometer,

invented by Dr. Yoshiro Hatano, who worked for a company called Yamesa in 1965. He and the

Japanese madmen who worked for Yemesa named his new device Manpo K, which translates to 10,000 step meter.

Now, before I throw poor Dr. Hattano under the bus, let me say this.

I'm sure he wasn't trying to perpetuate the greatest hoax ever pulled on the fitness community.

He was simply trying to come up with a name for his device

that would stick. And it did stick more than he could possibly imagine. Now I've said it before

in my article called 11 common exercise excuses, and I will say it again. I am not a fan of the 10,000 step phenomenon,

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