... 13,000 steps/day (boys) and 11000 steps/day (girls) BMI-referenced cut points [23]: 15,000 steps/day (boys) and 12,000 steps/day (girls) Sex-specific Children s Graduated Step Index for children ... year old boys, 10,000 steps/day for 5-12 year old girls, and 11,000 steps/day for 13-16 year old boys The optimized cut point for 1316 year old girls (14,000 steps) did not significantly Tudor-Locke ... free-living steps/day in preschool children (≅4-6 years of age), 13,000 to 15,000 steps/day in male primary/elementary schoolchildren, 11,000 to 12,000 steps/day in female primary/elementary school children, ...