Do these steps really count? Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action,

providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013, still take an intentional fitness walk

every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

One of the ways that you can make a fitness promise and fulfill that promise every day is by step count.

I'm going to get 5,000 steps, 7,000 steps, 10,000 steps, of course.

For the first eight years that I was walking for fitness, that was what I did.

Track my steps, which made my Fitbit one of the most important things that I own.

Because I was constantly checking that thing.

How many steps do I have?

My clothes.

If I reached my goal.

There were also times where technology, the Fitbit

technology, the StepTracker technology, wasn't my friend. There are four ways that your

step tracker can conspire against you, although I think in some of these situations you're a co-conspirator

without realizing it. Number one, you forget to charge your Fitbit. You forget to charge your

step tracker. I keep calling the Fitbit because that's all I've ever used. But my wife, she uses a garment, so that

would be her step tracker. A lot of people use the Apple Watch. So maybe that's your step tracker.

And there are other ways to track steps. So if I say Fitbit, I mean your step tracker, whatever

device you're using to count your steps. So number one is you forget to charge your step tracker, whatever device you're using to count your steps. So number one is you forget

to charge your step tracker. When I first began walking for fitness and counting my steps, it used a little

Fitbit zip, and I've actually used, I think, four or five different types of Fitbits. And early on,

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