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

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's take a walk.

10,000 steps.

It is still the gold standard for walking as a fitness activity.

Can't tell you how many times I've either heard people proclaim, that's my goal.

I'm going to walk 10,000 steps.

Or they celebrate reaching 10,000 steps for the first time.

Or someone with some expertise. By the way, I'm not a doctor,

not a licensed personal trainer, simply a guy who loves walking. But someone with expertise

say this really should be your goal. Walking is great exercise. Go for 10,000 steps.

It's a good goal. It's a terrible starting goal.

If you're just finding this podcast and you're thinking about contemplating,

making walking a part of your daily life, 10,000 steps, I believe is too much for

someone who's just getting started. Far better to start with a daily 10-minute walk, and

for some, a daily one-minute walk, to build the habit first, to grow that fitness capacity,

and then at some point down the road, expand to 10,000 steps.

And I've been saying that from probably day one of this podcast.

So what I want to talk about today are five reasons to walk 10,000 steps. Five reasons why this is a good goal. Before I get into those five, I just want to lay out that point that if you're just getting started, I don't recommend 10,000 steps.

So make 10,000 steps a future goal.

But here are five reasons.

Five reasons why 10,000 steps is a good thing. Five reasons why at some point you might want to consider walking 10,000 steps a day. Reason number one, it requires

intentionality. And I actually mean that that is reason number one. It requires intentionality.

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