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Who Are We?
Queensland Health provides the funding for 10,000 Steps to CQUniversity in Rockhampton. CQUni’s health professionals, academics and graduates coordinate the dissemination of the 10,000 Steps, assisting individuals and health professionals around Australia and the world!
What We Aim To Do...
The 10,000 Steps project aims to increase the day-to-day activity of Australians by encouraging you to use a set-counting pedometer to accumulate "incidental" physical activity as part of your everyday living. Significant health and well-being benefits can be made simply by moving more every day and 10,000 Steps can provide support, free resources and information.
The project has been successful in motivating local communities, workplaces and individuals to increase their physical activity levels.
Our Success
Active Lifestyles
- Over 80,000 online members
- Over 46 billion steps logged
- Over 300 online members regularly participate in the monthly Individual Challenges
- Over 3,800 online walking buddies
- Over 3,000 members registered with the Million Milestone Challenge with the highest accumulated step count over 55 Million
Active Workplaces
- Over 3,000 registered 10,000 Steps Providers with more than 3,000 provider members also regsitered
- Over 800 organisations have participated in Workplace Challenges
- Over 36,000 members have participated in Workplace Challenges
- Over 6,000 teams registered with Workplace Challenges
Active Communities
- Fifteen 10,000 Step communities throughout Queensland and interstate
- Over 230 stores stocking 10,000 Step pedometers
- Over 100 Queensland libraries loaning pedometers to the public
Take the challenge - register with 10,000 Steps and count your way to better health - physical activity.... Every Step Counts!
How We Began...
10,000 Steps was Australia’s first ‘whole of community’ health promotion physical activity project funded by Queensland Health. In 2001, the Rockhampton region was chosen for a two year trial of the project as the residents showed 'typical' levels of inactivity. During these two years, the 10,000 Steps Rockhampton Project was a collaboration between CQUniversity, the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Sports Medicine Australia, and the National Heart Foundation.
The initial 10,000 Steps Rockhampton Project was an exemplary model of an effective multi-strategy, multi-sector physical activity project. As a result of the success in Rockhampton, QLD Health has extended their funding and the project is currently rolling our as a sustainable state wide and beyond initiative.
10,000 Steps is committed to ongoing Research, Development, Distribution and Support of new and existing 10,000 Steps support materials at the local, state and national level, all with web-based support. The aim of this program is to increase participation in physical activity through the state and nation.
The authors of all information on this website are health promotion professionals with minimum qualifications of Bachelor of Human Movement Science. The website is overseen by Professor Kerry Mummery, PhD, FASMF, Associate Dean, College of Health and Human Services, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health, CQUniversity Australia.
