Pedometers Useful for Increasing Fitness Motivation
The availability of pedometers has made tracking fitness progress easier for beginners by giving them a set number of steps to take each day. Some of these numbers start out pretty small, 5,000 or a little more to encourage users to get moving and a group of Japanese researchers have recently proposed that the standard number of steps one should take each day should be raised to 10,000 as a minimum to encourage pedometer users to move even more.
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