[sotd] The 10,000-Step Guide to Fitness [January 14, 2008]

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        The 10,000-Step Guide to Fitness

Today's web page, from the BBC's News Online Magazine, offers an article
from Tom Geoghegan on a spiffing way to walk into shape. Gentle
Subscribers, who have delayed following through on their New Year's
resolution to become fit, may find the approach taken by this article the
way to gear into action.

"How does a pedometer work? ... It's the size of a matchbox, costs less
than a tenner and experts hope it could solve [a nation's] health crisis.
So how did a week using a pedometer - a device which counts one's steps -
change my lifestyle?" - from the website

The article describes the efforts of a sedentary British journalist to
change his routine, with the help of a pedometer, to meet the target of
10,000 steps a day, roughly calculated to measure about five miles. With an
overview of the health benefits ascribed to the simple act of walking, the
reporter reveals how far short of the 10,000 steps he was when he took on
the project and details his efforts to meet the goal. A diagram and
explanation of how a pedometer works is included in the feature, along with
how this basic device can motivate the underactive to start walking.

Stride over to the web page for the details on a simple way to fitness at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3723704.stm

  A.M. Holm
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