There are two types of research headlines that I love to see.

One involves coffee, the other involves what we're going to talk about today.

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 yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an

intentional fitness walk every single day. Walking right now and I would love to have you join me

for the next 10 minutes. Before we dive into today's topic and episode,

I need to mention I'm not a doctor. This podcast is for entertainment and educational purposes only.

I'm simply a guy who loves to walk, is passionate about that, and I also love to drink coffee.

And I'm not equally passionate about that, but it's not too far behind.

And I love it when I see headlines about coffee and how coffee is good for you,

particularly those when you dive into the details.

It's not just a cup of coffee, but I think I saw one last year where it was actually

encouraging me to drink even more coffee than I do.

I also love the research headlines that talk about exercise and particularly walking

and how walking is beneficial.

But my favorite kind of fitness and exercise benefit headline was one I saw recently,

and actually two, there were two studies that came to a similar conclusion.

One was out of the UK, involved 4,500 people.

They strapped a fitness tracker to their thigh, and they wore it for seven days, 24 hours,

so 24-7 for seven days.

The other was a smaller study out of Canada, and this only involved 30 people. So,

there's the cautionary. It's still a very small sample size. More research needs to be done.

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