3 Misguided Fitness Guidelines and Insights

You’ve probably heard some sort of fitness guidelines or recommendations from various media sources at some point in your life. These insights were no doubt put forth with the best intentions, but as time has passed and our understanding of health and fitness have evolved, so have these recommendations.

But a few of these recommendations and guidelines need some… adjusting. While they still might hold some merit in a general sense, you’ll need to update your approach if you’re looking to optimize your health and fitness.

1) 10k steps per day.

With the recent boom in wearable fitness trackers, the recommendation of ten thousand steps per day has seemingly become the gold standard for physical activity for the general population.