Alexis C. Madrigal: The Secret to Losing Weight, According to My New High-Tech Fitness Monitor, Is (Wait for It...) Walking (The Atlantic)
I overestimate the value of my official "workouts" and underestimate the value of walking as a means to an end.
Americans lag behind the rest of the world in steps taken precisely because we travel so rarely for transportation's sake. Our cities are spread out (NYC excepted) and car culture is everywhere. A Centers for Disease Control study found that almost 40 percent of Americans had not walked for 10 straight minutes in the past week!