Now don't quote me on this, as I am surely no fucking authority, lmao. But I have read a few different articles that actually state that the whole 10,000 steps thing originated randomly (it was a number pulled out of the ass of a Japanese
marketing company in the 60s when they wanted to release a pedometer around the Olympics way back then and the Japanese wordage for "ten-thousand" sounded pleasing for their ads)
There isn't any true Science based on a daily 10k steps as a goal, but for over like fifty years it just became the base that actual fitness and athleticism and training blahblahblah took on. A lot of research suggests that today, with the obesity epidemic being what it is, and with NA being wildly OTT fat compared to Japan/Asia.....the daily minimum number of steps should actually be way HIGHER.
So you aren't only right....she is actually significantly WORSE off than you're saying. Fucking
oof lad.
Also, grabbed a quick link to an article about some of the bs I'm babbling about