Go for a five-minute walk at the top of every hour: You take about 100 steps per minute of walking, so in addition to a mental break from work, you’ll accumulate about 5,000 steps (if you follow this ...
Naming it Manpo-kei (which translated roughly means 10,000 steps system) it took off and the figure we should all be aiming at stuck despite the lack of evidence. However scientists have now found ...
The number is based on the Manpo-kei pedometer designed in Japan in the 1960s. According to Milton, the Japanese character for 10,000 looks like a person walking, thus the name and the number ...