Maximizing the Benefits of Step Counting: 7 Surprising Tips.

The latest science suggests that fewer daily steps may be the sweet spot for many of us, depending on our age, fitness, and health goals. The sweet spot for step counts was not 10,000 or more. In general, the pooled data showed that for men and women younger than age 60, the greatest relative reductions in the risk of dying prematurely came with step counts of between about 8,000 and 10,000 per day. For people older than age 60, the threshold was a little lower. For them, the sweet spot in terms of reduced mortality risk came at between 6,000 and 8,000 steps a day.