Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

Let's go take a walk.

I'm walking past a building that's got some sprinklers,

and this sprinkler is about to hit a sign, which is going to make that noise.

10,000 steps.

Is this a goal that you have?

Is this a goal that you're reaching?

Maybe you've reached it occasionally.

Maybe you reach it every day.

Maybe you're just getting started with walking as a fitness activity. You just assume that, well, that's how many steps I need to get.

That needs to be my goal.

This episode is for you.

I want you to listen to this episode before you decide the 10,000 steps should be your goal.

And maybe you've already made that decision.

Maybe you've been pursuing this for a while.

I would recommend that you listen to this episode and then make the decision again.

Yes or no.

So let's start with 10,000 steps as a goal because it seems to be the universally accepted default goal for those who are using walking as a fitness activity. And I've done an

entire episode on the origin of 10,000 steps as a goal. It's really kind of fascinating. I'm not

going to get into all the details about that. If you want to hear that, check out the episode on May 27th.

But essentially, it originated. It started

in the mid-60s by a Japanese marketing campaign. They had created a pedometer step tracker,

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