Jul 28 ā¢ General discussion
š Why 10k Steps Per Day is a Myth
Sitting is the new smoking. Move, move, move - your Apple Watch is forever reminding you to close your movement rings. We get a rewarding digital buzz for every stair climbed, every activity logged, every calorie burnt (fun fact - most fitness trackers have a 20-25% margin of error when tracking calories). This is how our ancestors lived, right? Constantly on the go, clocking in mile after mile.
With the rise in popularity of ancestral movement, everybody has suddenly becomes obsessed with speculating about how ancestors moved and lived. Unfortunately, a lot of it is speculation. Members of the Hadza tribe (one of the few last hunter-gatherer tribes left on the planet, commonly used as a model for ancestral activity patterns) DO tend to have a relatively high step count. However, there is no such thing as structured exercise in their lives. They donāt fixate on getting their steps in, or do cardio - their activity comes in spontaneous, intermittent bursts throughout the day and largely consists of daily tasks (fishing, hunting, foraging, digging).
Actually, it will come as a big surprise to many that the Hadza spend around 9.9 hours per day in sedentary postures, but these don't include being chair-bound. They squat, kneel, and sit on the ground - all positions that require postural muscle engagement and multi-joint mobility. ALL the movement they do is functional, versus the 40-minute functional fitness class an average office worker partakes in. Itās not so much sitting that isnāt great for us, but sitting in the default 21st century posture of a cooked shrimp - chair, laptop, slumped.
Invest in your set-up. Maybe a backless chair. Ergonomic chairs, maybe a backless one if you train your core sufficiently. Computer at a proper height. Movement breaks every 45 minutes or so - and not just to walk; squat, bend, twist, pinch your shoulder blades and go through motion at every joint. āStepsā are a valuable measure of activity, but also just an expenditure currency - if youāve spent your entire day not moving only then to attack 12k steps in one go, your joints may not feel particularly great despite the calories burnt.
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