Why I walk 10000 steps every day?
Post date: 2026-05-07
It sounds a lot, until you start walking. I mostly use the same path every day. Sometimes I go to buy groceries on the way, sometimes I go up on the nearby hill. It all adds up to 10k steps. I also did some research, and it looks like you don't need nowhere near 10 thousand steps to consider the walking habit, healthy.
The reason why I do that many steps, is simple. I loose myself in it. I mostly listen to podcasts on the way, that makes it easier. I also feel that going for less, it simple doesn't move me that much. I am not getting tired, it didn't feel that good. When I go the necessary distance (sometimes even more) I feel good, my body maybe more tired than an hour ago, but I feel a nice dopamine pack reaching my brain.
If I only went 6000 steps, I wouldn't feel satisfied. It would feel like, I can go further. I need more steps, I am not tired yet. I am not saying I am always going for a tired state to finish at, but it definitely has more meaning for me. Then I feel, I did something, which is good both for my brain and body.
I started last Christmas, on December 26th. I had a pretty consistent walking days for years, but this is the first time I decided to have a well defined distance or number that I want to go. I have a half broken dumb phone as a pocket computer, which first I used to counting steps, but I felt I might need an easier solution than always carrying a brick with myself (nevermind, I still carry it, cause it's a competent music player). Enter the wrist computer, and I still refuse to use the phrase "smart watch". I have many watches thank you and wrist computers are just not it.
So I bought an Amazfit Bip 6, which is fairly inexpensive, and still have many good functions. Some day I will write a review, but it is not this day. I use this device to count steps and check my health that it can measure. It even has sleep tracking, which as I understood, can be tricky. Heck, a few days ago I got an update to my wrist computer for sleep tracking.
It's much more convenient to have something on the wrist than taking your pocket computer with you. And of course keeping track of steps if one of the main function of it. You can even setup goals for it, which is very nice. Plus it sets automatic reminders if you haven't stand up for an hour.
My new habit of daily ten thousand steps, was broken when I become ill in March. And as always after breaking a streak my mind just couldn't simple get back on the horse. But now I am doing it again, more than 14 days is my current streak, and I enjoy walking again.
