Do we really need to walk 10,000 steps a day?
The 10,000 steps a day target seems to have originated from a pedometer sold in 1965 by Yamasa Clock in Japan. Image: Unsplash/Frank Busch
Lindsay Bottoms
Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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