Our family got a puppy a fortnight ago. She's done what no personal trainer ever could; I am suddenly clocking up 10,000 daily steps without even trying.
Between matrescence and mum guilt, it's hard to commit time to your health and fitness goals as a busy working parent. So when my 10-year-old daughter's pleas for a puppy finally wore us down and we found ourselves saying yes to getting a puppy, I hoped it would help me to boost my daily step count. But I hadn't realised that it would prompt me to achieve my goal of walking 10,000 steps a day quite so easily.
