The Bottom Line
Why and how to use a step-counting pedometer to add more activity into your busy day, without necessarily adding long walking sessions.
Pros
- How and why to count daily steps
- How to use a step-counting pedometer
- Tools to track your steps
Cons
- None
Description
- Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke is an Assistant Professor of Health Promotion, Arizona State University
- How to turn a busy but sedentary 3000 steps a day lifestyle into an active 10,000 steps a day life.
- How step-counting pedometers work and how to use them to track your daily activity
- Baseline chart, activity chart, self-assessing questions to help you get started and keep moving.
- The Japanese pioneered and popularized Manpo-kei - 10,000 steps a day for health.
- Determine what the right number of steps per day is for you.
Guide Review - Manpo-kei: Art and Science of Step Counting
Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke knows the way we live now - a lifestyle where we are very busy but basically sedentary. She shows how to use a pedometer and add in more steps throughout the day without necessarily adding in long "exercise" periods. Includes self-assessing questions, goal setting questions, baseline activity chart, tracking chart. This very-readable book can get you moving and on your way from a busy life to an active life.
