So my answer about shoes has changed. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute

podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk,

and even more importantly, to keep going, to to keep walking to build a life-changing

walking habit today's 10-minute walk starts right after this so one of the

questions that I get pretty frequently is what shoes do you recommend? Now this tends to be a question

that shows up on the walking as fitness YouTube channel. Someone sees a video of a guy who walks a lot

and I get it, they want recommendations for shoes probably because their feet are either in

discomfort or worse in pain and here's someone who walks a lot clearly not in pain

what shoes are you wearing because I want I want the same thing and my answer

to any shoe question has always been,

there's no one size fits all.

You need to go see a professional,

talk about your specific feet, your specific needs,

and have them find the shoes that are right for you.

Recently, I had a conversation with Dr. Courtney Connolly.

She's one of the co-authors of the book Walk talked about that book yesterday. In fact,

even walked to the store so I could buy it. They didn't have it in stock. Very disappointing.

I ordered it and hopefully that order will cause someone

to go, oh, maybe we should have a few of these on the shelf. Dr. Connolly is a foot expert.

She's a doctor of chiropractic medicine. She has a practice in Colorado. her focus, her specialty is feet, foot strength.

And she deals with a lot of patients who come to her because they're in pain. So she has decades

of experience. And many years ago to promote walking, she created an organization

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