Save Your Health using 10,000 Steps

Everyone wants their health to be great but not everyone has enough time to get in proper work outs and make sure that this is possible. This is the reason that health professionals are pushing people to adopt the ten thousand step method. The idea is that you take at least ten thousand steps each day (walking) and that can help you get very healthy and reduce the time that is required for exercise. Walking is often a brilliant and low impacting exercise. How often have you over heard a physician say "just a single walk around the block improves your health"?

Obviously, getting in ten thousand steps each day will likely be challenging. That's a lot! Thankfully, you're most likely taking lots of steps every single day and just don't know it. Your intention should really just be boosting your step count by two or three thousand. So how do you accomplish that without resorting to basically walking back and forth all day long?

There are a number of obvious things you can do to take more steps. One typical example of this is hiking the stairs instead of taking an elevator or escalator. Parking at the far end on the parking lot is also advisable at the mall or the store. Keep the car in one spot and walk your bags and boxes out to the car once you finish shopping in each store rather than just carrying more and more things with you as you run your errands and go shopping. Using public transport is fantastic for increasing your step count since you have to walk to the bus stop and back instead of just to and from the car. The greatest way to do it, of course, would be to just take a quick walk each day.

Some less evident ways to grow your step count are also available. Write your grocery grocery list in a different order. Plenty of men and women plan lists by the aisles in their favorite stores. Organize your own list in groups such as dairy, meat, produce, snacks, etc. Then find each item in the order that it is detailed on your list. You may possibly wind up making several trips back and forth across the store, but it is a great way to raise your step count. Instead of positioning your mailbox as part of your entry way or installing it in a wall of your residence, put it out by the curb on a post. This can create at least several dozen steps to your count everyday as you walk from your door to the box and back.

Increasing your step count can be carried out in several ways. As you become familiar with walking 10,000 steps each day you'll come up with plenty of creative ways to get to that number. Thankfully, every step you take--whether it's walking toward the refrigerator or going for walks on a treadmill, counts toward your end step count goal. Try to have fun with your challenge!