The recommendation of getting in 10,000 steps a day has been around for decades. It originates from a marketing campaign conducted before the start of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games in which a company began selling a pedometer called the Manpo-kei. ‘Man’ means 10,000, ‘po’ means steps and ‘kei’ means meter. The number stuck from then on in! It is recommended to walk this daily, … [Read more...] about How to reach 10,000 steps a day, according to a fitness expert