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Revisiting "how many steps are enough?".
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The purpose of this article is to reprise, update, and extend the current understanding of dose-response relationships in terms of pedometer-determined PA, to advance evidence-based steps/day standards in both adults and children from a measurement perspective.Abstract:
With continued widespread acceptance of pedometers by both researchers and practitioners, evidence-based steps/day indices are needed to facilitate measurement and motivation applications of physical activity (PA) in public health. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to reprise, update, and extend the current understanding of dose-response relationships in terms of pedometer-determined PA. Any pedometer-based PA guideline presumes an accurate and standardized measure of steps; at this time, industry standards establishing quality control of instrumentation is limited to Japan where public health pedometer applications and the 10,000 steps.d slogan are traceable to the 1960s. Adult public health guidelines promote > or =30 min of at least moderate-intensity daily PA, and this translates to 3000-4000 steps if they are: 1) at least moderate intensity (i.e., > or =100 steps.min); 2) accumulated in at least 10-min bouts; and 3) taken over and above some minimal level of PA (i.e., number of daily steps) below which individuals might be classified as sedentary. A zone-based hierarchy is useful for both measurement and motivation purposes in adults: 1) or =10,000-12,499 steps.d (active); and 5) > or =12,500 steps.d (highly active). Evidence to support youth-specific cutoff points is emerging. Criterion-referenced approaches based on selected health outcomes present the potential for advancing evidence-based steps/day standards in both adults and children from a measurement perspective. A tradeoff that needs to be acknowledged and considered is the impact on motivation when evidence-based cutoff points are interpreted by individuals as unattainable goals.read more
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Physical activity of Canadian adults: accelerometer results from the 2007 to 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey.
TL;DR: The findings indicate that 85% of adults are not active enough to meet Canada's new physical activity recommendation, and men are more active than women and MVPA declines with increasing age and adiposity.
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Physical activity of Canadian children and youth: accelerometer results from the 2007 to 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey.
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How many steps/day are enough? For older adults and special populations
Catrine Tudor-Locke,Cora L Craig,Yukitoshi Aoyagi,Rhonda C. Bell,Karen A. Croteau,Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij,Ben Ewald,Andrew W. Gardner,Yoshiro Hatano,Lesley D. Lutes,Sandra Matsudo,Farah A. Ramirez-Marrero,Laura Q. Rogers,David A. Rowe,Michael D. Schmidt,Michael D. Schmidt,Mark A. Tully,Steven N. Blair +17 more
TL;DR: The evidence suggests that 30 minutes of daily MVPA accumulated in addition to habitual daily activities in healthy older adults is equivalent to taking approximately 7,000-10,000 steps/day, which approximates 8,000 Steps on days that include a target of achieving 20 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA).
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How many steps/day are enough? for adults
Catrine Tudor-Locke,Cora L Craig,Wendy J. Brown,Stacy A. Clemes,Katrien De Cocker,Billie Giles-Corti,Yoshiro Hatano,Shigeru Inoue,Sandra Matsudo,Nanette Mutrie,Jean-Michel Oppert,David A. Rowe,Michael D. Schmidt,Michael D. Schmidt,Grant Schofield,John C. Spence,Pedro J. Teixeira,Mark A. Tully,Steven N. Blair +18 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this review was to update existing knowledge of "How many steps/day are enough?", and to inform step-based recommendations consistent with current physical activity guidelines.
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