Count Steps to Improve Your Health
Do you take enough steps in your day? Do you count your steps and keep track of the number of steps you take? Could you benefit by increasing your daily steps? For many Americans, springtime signals it’s time to get moving and an easy way is to count your daily steps. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “more than 50% of U.S. adults do not get enough exercise to receive health benefits and 25% are not active at all in their leisure time.” A recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said, “the costs associated with physical inactivity are high… if ten percent of adults in the United States began a regular walking program, an estimated $5.6 billion in heart disease costs could be saved.”
Two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association have confirmed that a step counting lifestyle approach can be as effective as a traditional exercise program. Simply increasing the number of steps you take each day, and keeping track of how many steps you’re taking, can have a positive impact on your overall health. A JAMA article reviewed studies that showed “use of a pedometer, especially with a daily step goal, is associated with significant increases in physical activity (additional walking of about one mile per day) and decreases in body mass index and blood pressure.” Although there is no detailed evidence of the effectiveness of recording daily steps, it has recently experienced a surge in popularity as a tool for motivating and monitoring physical activity.
The CDC recommends striving to take 10,000 steps each day. According to the CDC average, Americans get only 3,000 to 5,000 steps a day. Making a conscious effort to engage in 30 minutes of physical activity by walking at a brisk pace around your neighborhood or on a treadmill after an otherwise sedentary day will help you satisfy the CDC/ACSM recommendation and reward yourself with health benefits.”
LifeSpan’s Step Counting Solutions
Our newest step counting feature and exercise program is an excellent tool to help you begin counting your steps or add to your current step counting.
Intelli-Stepâ„¢ is LifeSpan’s exclusive technology which detects the impact of your foot-strike on the treadmill belt as you exercise. Our unique step count program lets you select the number of steps you want to take, then displays the number of steps you’ve taken until you reach your goal. The step count program is a simple solution to help you get more physical activity each day. The LifeSpan EL3000i elliptical trainer also displays the number of steps you take while you are using your elliptical.
Intelli-Stepâ„¢ is one of many LifeSpan innovations demonstrating our commitment to developing and utilizing technology to create simple and meaningful features for positive health benefits.
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