All righty, ready to do this, this 10-minute walk together. Welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness.

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the car to the store, putting laundry away. Functional walking that is beneficial. CDC considers

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Hi, I'm Dave doing something different today.

Now, you may be doing nothing different at all.

You may be walking at your normal time and in your normal route,

but I am doing something.

Typically, typically I record the podcast during the first 10 minutes of my morning walk.

Not so much today.

I wanted to do something different to illustrate really a key belief that I have that the change nine years ago when I got my first Fitbit.

That Fitbit did quite a few profound things to the way I view fitness, to the way I view movement, even

how I view my lifestyle. And one of the things, because I had set a fairly high step goal,

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