9757 steps
Manpo-kei is the Japanese health slogan meaning "10,000 steps meter." Dr. Yoshiro Hatano, the Japanese researcher, recognized 10,000 steps as a good goal for a healthy lifestyle back in the 1960s. This coincided with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and a greater interest in fitness and the invention of the pedometer. The concept of 10,000 steps has made its way to the West and is now recommended by Dr. Oz and others for increased fitness!
Very excited about my new Omron HJ-112 pedometer: it counts all kinds of things... calories burned, steps taken, and distance traveled in miles. The coolest thing is it tells you the number of steps you have taken at a brisk pace, called aerobic steps. Those are achieved by:
- Walking more than 60 steps per minute
- Continuously walking for more than 10 minutes
The brisk walking portion of my day came to 7764 steps and took me 75 minutes-- so I burned some calories, 497 to be exact. Hey, I'm becoming a pedometer nerd!
Catrine Tudor-Locke, author of Manpo-Kei: The Art and Science of Step Counting, uses the term More Than Before for achieving your goals. You set a Baseline Level and try to go beyond by reaching your Step Goal. I'm calling 6,000 steps my Baseline Level, about 3 miles per day. I achieved a good goal today with almost 10,000 steps, close to 5 miles. I did More Than Before... for sure.
On my walk I saw a guy getting ready to launch his own personal Drone-- a quadcopter. He had a camera attached and said the drone can do aerial photography. He's had the device for several months. It took off and in a few seconds was a couple of hundred feet in the air. Prepare yourself, consumer drones are here and your neighbors may already be snooping around your backyard.
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