As you scroll through Instagram you most likely see fitness influencers posting about going on walks and getting their "steps" in.
So why are they so popular/important ?
1. Regular physical activity helps increase your level of fitness, keeping your heart, mind and body healthy and strong 💪🏽
2. Going outside to achieve your steps, will lighten your mood. Walking releases endorphins, your body's happy hormones, to the body - so the more steps you take the happier you will be.
3. Gives you a chance to clear your mind from daily stresses.
4. Helps to improve sleep.
Those are just a few of the many benefits of walking and hitting step goals, but why do I make my clients track their steps?
The reason is so they can achieve a greater calorie deficit through physical activity. Doing 10k steps is equal to around 400 calories, over a week that's about 2800 calories that have been burned.
This will ensure a loss for my clients and also allows them to have a higher calorie target (ie eat more).
Most importantly so that it becomes a lifestyle change, instead of some crash diet where they get put on some unrealistic calorie goal.
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