Nah, the argument is that steps are of little long term value to your health, which is medically very true. The idea is to use steps as the gate between getting your ass off the couch and doing some real exercise, cycling, running, gym, etc. There are short term gains to your health, but simply taking steps does not really translate into cardio vascular health, which is primarily what the vital program aims to promote, as there are a lot of fringe benefits and associated risk reductions, exercise reduces stress which in turn reduced blood pressure. Most people who ecercise tend to me more conscience about what they eat, they also tend to consume alcahol more concervatively. Exercise as a hole creates motivation and self challenge, if you lifting weights you tend to push urself to either do more reps or push heavier weights, running/cycling/swimming you either want to go further or faster. Before I even had medical aid I came to a personal realisation that going from 78 in high school wearing a size 32 pants, to being in my mid 20s at a desk job closing in on 125kg and a size 46,something had to change, and it started with walking the dog loved it got to a point were 10k steps for me was a single walk with the dog but after a few months it's benefits on my weight loss ended, I had reached the limits of stepping benefits and that lead me to jogging them running then gun run 10k,2 Oceans half, next came mtb and trail running, my longest race to date is 60km mtb and 30k trail. I briefly took up crossfit and have taken up swimming as for me I have gone as far as I care with running, cycling goals are pretty big and expensive so in the mean time tri is the next step, already done the duos. I am an example of the extreme case of what discovery Is attempting to promote. Although I am pretty sure some people comrades or k2c all started with 10k steps for vitality. Scott Spark 930 (2018) MTB Vids: ltstyt.be/@remelehane
