The 10,000-step goal came from a 1960s pedometer marketing campaign, not science. You don't need it for weight loss or health. Moving any amount, whether a few thousand steps or less, counts toward your goals.
So guess what? You know this 10,000 steps a day thing? Well, it's actually a myth, and it was made up by a marketing company to sell pedometers. It's not clinically proven, and it's fine if you can do 10,000 steps a day, believe me, that's fantastic. But sometimes you can't and you feel a failure. So instead of feeling a failure, just get out there and do some, honestly, couple of thousand, 1,000, whatever you can do.
