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 extra motivation to keep that promise. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been

walking for fitness since 2013. I've averaged almost 21,000 steps. I am walking right now. I would

love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. So here's a question for you, and maybe it's a question you've even

asked recently. How important is it to count steps? I will tell you that my opinion on this

has actually changed since I started in 2013. This episode is sponsored by the StepFit plan. Yeah,

keeping that fitness promise is hard, but let's not make it harder than it should be. The

stepfit plan will help you begin a fitness journey using your walking in a way that is

sustainable, that will help you overcome

those challenging days and perhaps even more importantly will minimize how many challenging days

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Check out the resource page. There's also a link in the show notes for today's episode.

So it is a cool. I would even classify it as a chilly day in South Carolina, a little bit of a breeze.

You can probably hear that, but I am not going to, I'm not going to complain. I'm not going

to wine. Instead, I'm going to enjoy the opportunity that we have for a walk together at I.M.

So the question is, how important is it to count your steps, whether you use Fitbit,

an Apple Watch, or some other step tracker?

So I've been wearing a Fitbit since 2013. That's when I started. And here's

what I love about counting my steps. Number one, particularly in the beginning, it revealed

how much I was actually moving. And for most of us, that reveal

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