According to experts (whoever they are), you should be hitting 10,000 steps each day! But is this merely a myth?

The whole '10,000-steps-a-day' malarkey has become a huge target over the past couple of years but did you know it actually originated back in the 1960's as a marketing campaign in Japan?

In the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a company came up with a device which they started marketing to the health-conscious. It was called a Manpo-Kei. In Japanese, "man" means 10,000, "po" means steps and "kei" means meter. So it was, literally, a 10,000 steps meter.

The pedometer has evolved a lot since then and in a world of Fitbits, step counter apps and technology that is becoming increasingly Smarter - we wanted to find The Breakfast Show's Most Active Listener.

To make it fair we were only looking for step counts from yesterday. We felt this would give us a good average.

Our own Shauna O'Reilly kicked things off with her steady 2,657 steps but she didn't remain on the leader board for long. The screengrabs came flying in:

We had loads of contenders but there could only be one winner and his name was Gavin Dooley. Feast your eyes on this for mileage:

38, 121???? Applause all round Gav. Looks like the Ploughing Championships is the place to burn some calories #hotstepper

Check out the the stats (plus Iano & Gavings chat) in full by pressing the play button in the image at the top of the page.

For more fun like this, tune into The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show weekdays from 7am.