Has anyone dealt with walking is underrated - 10k steps changed my life more than the gym?

DebRD_ATL said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

dave_SLC said:

Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a 10K last weekend.

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Taking it to my next appointment.

DebRD_ATL said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.