Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Today's walk is happening later in the day.

Late morning, almost lunchtime, and so I'm walking in a field.

It's a wide open field and the sun is shining and I am feeling comfortable.

Still well layered.

Still wearing the magic hat.

But it just feels nicer than it did this morning.

So I'm enjoying the option of being able to do this a little

bit later in the day. So question, does having a fitbit, does using a fitbit or some sort of

step tracker could be a Garmin, Apple Watch is popular, or another type of step tracker.

Does using a step tracker actually increase the number of steps that you take over the course of a day?

Now let's be clear that what I mean by that is, are you motivated to take more steps? Does a step tracker

motivate you to move more than if you weren't wearing one? So I've got some research that I'm

going to give you in just a moment. But first, just a little bit of my own personal history.

And if you've been listening to walking his fitness

for some time you've probably heard some of this or some variation of this but when i put my

fitbit on my very first fitbit on for the very first time january 2nd 2013 i was shocked actually at how low the number was, how small that number was.

I was convinced that I was actually moving way more than I thought I was.

And then once I put the Fitbit on and saw exactly how many steps I was getting over the course of the day.

I was shocked.

And instead of being discouraged by that, I leaned into it and that became motivation, fuel to move more.

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