I want to talk about a side benefit of counting steps.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added

motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and more importantly, to keep going, to build

a life-changing walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

Today's walk is going to have the backdrop of a busy highway. Those vehicles that you're

hearing are traveling on Route 501, which connects Conway,

South Carolina to Myrtle Beach.

I am at a car dealership which is located on 501, Route 501.

Our vehicle is getting its 75,000 mile service its checkup and I am walking

laps in a parking lot right next to the car dealership and it's one of those

things they have a very nice waiting room, by the way. Nice chairs, several big screen TVs, free coffee.

And if anyone in the waiting room cared to look up and look out the window,

they would see me walking laps and if they thought anything of it it might be

well that's a lot what's he doing i'm not sitting that's what i'm doing got a message i don't know

who it's from it was one of those anonymous messages comments on youtube pretty inspiring actually and I'll read it to you in a moment, but as I was reading it,

I went off on a little rabbit trail.

And so that's what I want to start with.

It's a, what I think is a side benefit of tracking steps, counting steps, which I know is not

everybody's thing. And I've heard from listeners who have tried the whole step tracking,

setting goals, and they actually found it demotivating. And I can understand that. But I think there's a, at least for me, and I don't think

I'm alone, there's an added benefit, a side benefit, an additional benefit of step tracking

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