Are These Steps Cumulative?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Do all your steps count towards the research backed health benefits of walking? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave answers this question from a listener.
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| 0:00.0 | So when I'm taking laundry out of the dryer and walking it into the bedroom, does that count? |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast providing you with a little added motivation to get out the door and take the walk. |
| 0:20.0 | And today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:28.6 | There's something very peaceful, at least for me, and I don't think I'm alone in this. |
| 0:34.6 | Something very peaceful about walking through the woods while it's raining, which is kind of sort of what I'm doing right now. |
| 0:45.3 | So you can hear the rain and I'm walking along the wooded trail, so it's a pine straw covered dirt trail through a wooded area that is near |
| 1:00.0 | our home it is not a super long trail I'm going to guess it's maybe between a third of a mile to a |
| 1:09.0 | half mile long and I can see the end on both sides so it's not |
| 1:16.2 | like I'm in the middle of in the middle of the woods away from civilization I can see |
| 1:23.1 | civilization I can turn and I can see well I can see a car in a parking lot down there and in the other |
| 1:28.7 | direction I can see a house that is probably a mile away that's probably not that far I'm terrible |
| 1:38.4 | with distances anyhow I can see a house beyond the end of the other side of the trail. |
| 1:46.6 | So I am not in the middle of nowhere. |
| 1:50.1 | But still, it's peaceful. |
| 1:57.2 | Walking surrounded by trees with the gentle rain falling. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm kinda liking it. |
| 2:03.6 | Kind of liking it. |
| 2:05.6 | Here's a comment. |
| 2:06.6 | Actually it's a question. |
| 2:08.6 | This was to one of the Walking-Fitness Fitness YouTube videos. |
| 2:12.6 | Does 7,500 steps include the walking around in your house or at work to do your daily tasks? |
| 2:21.7 | Or are those 7,500 steps walking for exercise, intentional steps that you are walking for exercise? |
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