Especially if your job is relatively sedentary, and you don’t regularly exercise. Where health and longevity are concerned, walking matters. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that: ...

A group of Buddhists monks spent 108 days walking on a 2,000-mile march from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. The “Walk for Peace” began October 26, 2025, and completed ...

Fitness bands have long been seen as entry-level wearables with simple step counters meant for basic tracking. HUAWEI, the no. 1 wearable brand, breaks ...

The health and fitness world is full of arbitrary metrics like these, despite the research often saying otherwise. The origin ...

Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

While I love walking outdoors and being in nature, it doesn’t always feel so appealing in the colder months. To stop my step count from plummeting on rainy days, I’ve recently started following indoor ...

There's plenty of fodder around the benefits of logging 10,000 steps per day for better health. The idea is mostly the product of a myth started by some clever marketing in 1965 by Yamasa Tokei, a ...

“Is it too early to crown Strava activity of the year? ,” the fitness app captioned a post on Instagram Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

If you’ve ever tracked your steps with a wearable fitness tracker, a smartwatch, or the pedometer built into your phone, you likely have, at one point or another, strived to reach 10,000 steps a day.

There is now clear evidence that exercise measured by step count per day can reduce the risk of developing dementia. A mathematical model is presented in this paper that predicts the reduction in risk ...