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Alice Porter

Walking 10,000 steps every day is the best thing I've done to improve my sleep—here's why

Woman lying in bed smiling with her eyes closed, with one arm behind her head and the other stretched out to the side. She is wearing blue PJs and the bedding is white.

Around this time last year, I decided to set myself the goal of walking 10,000 steps every day. It sounds like a lot and it felt like a lot at first, but having stuck to it almost every day since, I've found that it's well worth getting your steps in.

There are plenty of well-established benefits of walking—it can aid weight loss and weight management, as well as improving your overall cardiovascular health—but one of the unexpected benefits of increasing my step count is that my sleep has dramatically improved.

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