When you walk 10,000 steps a day, you add another stone to the wall, protecting your health. Achieving 10,000 steps per day has become somewhat of a national obsession now that digital pedometers are suddenly widely available on fitness trackers, smartphones and smartwatches. Even though it may seem silly to pace in your living room late at night to complete the last 100 stages, it’s not just a game.
Apart from weight loss, here are some benefits that 10000 steps can do for your health-
1. Strengthen Your Heart
The difference between a person walking 1,000 steps per day and 10,000 steps per day is their stroke volume, or how much blood their heart pumps per beat. Greater aerobic capacity is indicated by a greater stroke volume, indicating increased mortality and disease risk.
2. May Help Stabilize Your Blood Sugar
Post-meal blood sugar levels and insulin response will be significantly reduced in people who walk 10,000 steps every day. The person who is passive will get a much bigger response. A person who experiences a rise in sugar and insulin after eating is also more likely to develop heart disease in the future.
3. Improves Brain Performance
Daily moderate exercise helps people learn new skills, grow new brain cells, and protect against cognitive impairment. Walking and other aerobic exercise can also stimulate the hippocampus, the area of the brain that controls emotions and memory, to generate new cells.
4. Reduces fat storage in the body
Calories consumed by someone who walks 10,000 steps a day do not follow the same path as those consumed by an inactive person. Compared to an inactive person, someone who exercises frequently consumes food that is used by the body to power vital systems in a different way. However, those calories are more likely to be stored as fat, in muscle, or in the liver in someone who is habitually inactive resulting in less weight gain even with heavy caloric consumption.
5. Strengthens Healthy Habits
There is a difference between a stepper and a non-stepper that cannot be detected by a glucose meter, brain scan, or electron microscope. Small victories strengthen each other. It is more likely that someone who has reached 10,000 steps the day before and the day after, will do so again the next day.
When it comes to weight loss and overall health, a change in behavior depends on forming good habits.
(Disclaimer: The information given in this article is based on general information and does not replace the advice of an expert. Zee News does not endorse the same.)