Tracking your daily steps is one great way to maintain your overall fitness. But there’s another number that may provide an even better sense of your overall heart health — and calculating it just ...

Have you met your step goals today? If so, well done! Monitoring your step count can inspire you to bump up activity over time. But when it comes to assessing fitness or cardiovascular disease risk, ...

10,000 steps a day. How often do we use this as a yardstick of a healthy lifestyle? It’s the number we try to reach on our fitness watches – a standard benchmark of an acceptable minimal amount of ...

From pricey wearable devices to your phone, it has never been easier to track your daily physical activity, or lack of it. And if you're like many Americans and spend nine-plus hours sitting every day ...

Recently, I’ve been compulsively returning to the little red heart on my phone’s home screen. It’s not the gateway to some intriguing new dating app or an embarrassingly addictive mobile game – the ...