Today's 10 minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

Yesterday I started looking at common mistakes that are made while walking.

This is from a WebMD article that was published in 2023.

My initial thought was I would do five yesterday and five today, but I only got through three yesterday, so we'll do three or four today and wrap it up tomorrow.

If you didn't hear yesterday's episode, the first three mistakes wearing the wrong shoe for walking and your feet and having the wrong size number two stuck in a rut doing the same thing the same way at the same time

day after day for some people that works actually

really well it's like a pre-decision you don't have to figure it out every day

when you're getting ready to head out for the walk but for some maybe even many

that can feel very rut-like and boring and that can be demotivating.

And then number three, listening to music or podcasts that are playing way too loud and

you can't hear what's going on around you. You might have heard some traffic that just went

by. I'm on a sidewalk near a busy road.

It's got a double yellow line, two lanes, one on each side.

And there's probably six, seven feet between the sidewalk and the road.

And it's good for me to be able to hear the traffic.

I mean, it would be a significant thing for those cars to leave the roadway and come

onto the sidewalk, but I still want to be aware of what's happening around me.

All right.

So those are the three that I talked about yesterday. We'll move on to number four.

Again, common mistakes while walking from a web MD article published in 2023. And this one is

irony of ironies. Number four, staring at your screen as you're walking. And I have seen people do this. In fact, there's a young woman in our community

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