Are children meeting any of the suggested daily step recommendations?

Abstract

Study aim: Over the past decade there have been numerous efforts to identify how many steps/day children should accumulate. Recommendations range from 10,000 to 16,500 steps/day. The purpose of this article was to examine the percentage of elementary school aged children meeting nine different sets of steps/day recommendations.

Keywords

• physical education
• health
• pedometer
• physical activity