Exercise challenge: 10,000 steps per day for a full year is easily achievable by anyone, any age, any fitness level. Here is the BUT... if you aren't someone who exercises... then jumping into failure just creates failure. This is basically similar to the cycle of depression... you try something massive, fail, become depressed, then looking for the next failure.
It's easy for people to say stupid shit online, like a 10k daily exercise challenge, but the reality is that those people are probably already super fit, or its their lifestyle, or they aren't very busy people (ie. running a hectic business or have a bunch of kids hanging around), etc etc. There may be a small group of people who do all those things, but that is how they get their 10k daily, and that group is small.
Too many big mouths behind keyboards. Set realistic goals... ie. 2500 step challenge for 30 days. Then up it to 5k steps, then 7.5k and so forth. It takes small progressive change to become normal.
What I'm saying is... be reasonable when starting in order to reduce failure, as you become better with time management, fitness, capacity to achieve distance for total steps, then, and only then, actually commit to the challenge itself. Nobody is saying you have to start today at 10k. You can start in a month or two months, where you are progressively building up to it and changing your life in order to close in on that daily figure.
Yes... I can say all of this from experience, as I do this already.
The person writing about was saying how much it helped both his physical health and his mental health...
I'm not sure why you need this one person online telling you the obvious, which any doctor should have already told you. It is fact that regular, ongoing exercise improves your physical and mental health. Every doctor on the planet should know this basic fact and be helping their patients by imparting this upon them.
You can see from mine that there are two months I didn't reach 10k, and likely I was away a lot during those months. That is life... so don't beat yourself up over it, just focus on small goals, meet them, increase, maintain, increase, maintain, to where you are comfortable. There will always be interruptions from life... just keep going on and account that it happens, so maybe you make an average of 12k or more per day, so when there are days off, holidays, sick days, etc, you automatically have it covered.