What your step count says about your fitness levels

Almost every smartphone, smartwatch, or wearable worth its salt now has a built-in step counter.

With experts warning that ‘sitting is the new smoking’, and organisations such as the Health Service Executive (HSE) and Sport Ireland devising campaigns to encourage the public to be more active, monitoring our total number of daily steps has become part of our lives.

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