Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave. If you're brand new to this podcast, welcome. Good to have you along.

This comment question to a Walkiness Fitness YouTube video, how in the world,

don't you love when questions start that way? How in the world can you

average 19,000 steps a day? Over the last year, I've averaged 6556 steps a day and I feel like

I've done a lot and I'm retired. So I don't have much else to do. 19,000 is really amazing.

By the way, I'm glad I found this channel.

Thank you, Dave.

Thank you. Thanks for watching the video.

Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for your question.

It's a question that I have received from time to time.

Although I don't mention that 19,000 steps a day average much on the

podcast. It is part of the standard open for the YouTube videos because I want viewers to know that

I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. I'm simply a guy who loves walking, even when it is windy and chilly,

as it is this morning. Since 2013, I've averaged 19,000 steps a day. So how do I do that? Well,

first off, it's important to know that this is not a goal. I don't wake up in the morning and think about getting 19,000 steps a day. How am I going to do that? How am I going to reach 19,000 for the day? I haven't actually had a walking goal, a step goal for probably about five years. Now, for many years I did, I had a step goal, which was 20,000.

Sometimes it was a little bit higher than that, sometimes a little bit lower than that.

But for the last four to five years, I don't even pay attention to the number that is on my step tracker.

In fact, at the moment, I couldn't tell you how many steps I have.

Because this habit of walking every day is a habit that I love,

and while walking is very much exercise and is very much a fitness activity. I do this now more because I enjoy.

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