Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard. In other words, right now, you're doing a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little added motivation.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013. I've averaged almost 21,000

steps a day. I'm walking right now, and I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is a cool morning in South Carolina. We've recently had some rain. Looks like that is not going to be an issue today,

but I do have my magic hat on, the one that keeps my ears warm.

When it gets really cold, you'll hear me talking about this. It hasn't actually reached the level of

really cold this morning. I just don't feel like having ears that are less than toasting.

So I've got a ski cap that I'm wearing and loving life because of that.

Got an email recently from Sue, a listener and fellow Walker in South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, a couple hours away from

where we live here in Myrtle Beach. And Sue was wondering, how many walks do I take a day?

How do I, how many miles do I walk every day? And so I will answer Sue's question in just a moment. First, this episode is sponsored by the Stepfit plan. I want you to be walking and loving walking and walking more than you've ever walked before a year from now. I want you to have so much fitness momentum that it's never even an issue.

You don't even ponder not heading out and doing your daily fitness walk. But for that to happen,

if it's not already happening, really depends on how how you start the key is beginning with a goal

that is appropriate for you and then gradually increasing it so you build that momentum and then

on to fitness transformation the stepfit plan it lays it all out for you it is free it is

effective and it is yours go to walking is fitness.com. The resource page.

There's also a link in the show notes for today's episode. All right, so Sue wondering,

how many walks do I take a day and how many miles is that? First, a little background. I am not retired. I do have a full-time

job, but I work from home and I have quite a bit of schedule flexibility with my job. And because I

work from home, I don't have a commute.

So when we lived in Maryland and I was working at the radio station, there was at least an hour a day in the car driving to and from the station.

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