Hitting your daily step-count goal has plenty of benefits, but keeping your weight from creeping up isn’t one of them.
details an experiment following 120 freshman at Brigham Young University who walked either 10,000, 12,500, or 15,000 steps daily for six days a week during their first six months of college. The students tracked their steps using a pedometer.
The study’s goal was to evaluate whether exceeding 10,000 steps would minimize the kind of weight and fat gain that is common for freshmen, especially in their first few months of school. The result? Not so much—the average weight gain for the students was 3.5 pounds.didn’t translate to a more protective effect wasn’t part of the study, but lead author Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.
, and some studies didn’t see even that,” he said, adding that preventing weight gain, particularly with this population, will require more research—especially with eating pattern changes, and over a longer period of time., Bailey added. He said that those who managed to reach 15,000 steps per day were getting in at least an hour more of active time during their days than when they started.
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