Contemporary Retirement

Retirement is changing. The type of retirement that their parents enjoyed is no longer enough for the baby boomer generation. Today’s retirees are younger, richer, fitter, healthier and better educated than previous generations of retirees. They also have much higher expectations. The aim of this blog is to help you get the vital, healthy, prosperous, productive and fulfilling retirement that you really want (and deserve).

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

 

Walking 10,000 steps may not be enough to get you fit

For the past couple of years, we have been told that walking 10,000 steps per day was enough to keep you fit and stop weight gain. Now, however, researchers from a team at the Canadian University of Alberta, have compared a 10,000-step exercise programme with a more traditional, moderate-intensity fitness regime and discovered that there were significant improvements in fitness levels in the second group. Get the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5371116.stm.


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