How often should you check to see how many steps you have over the course of a day?

How often should you do that?

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

And that really, keeping that promise, really can be the hardest part of fitness.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day.

I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

It is a mild morning here in South Carolina.

Skies are clear, but the winds are a bit more active, as you can probably tell.

And we've been in this weather pattern for the last couple of weeks where the winds in the morning are very calm but by

afternoon pretty gusty so starting with winds that are robust right now makes me wonder where are

we going to end up later today it's going get interesting. So how often should you check how many

steps you have? Now this of course presupposes that you are wearing some sort of step tracker.

Three of the more common are Fitbit, an Apple Watch, a Garmin. I use a Fitbit. That's the only type I've used since I first got it in 2013.

Right now, I've got the Fitbit Inspire 2.

My wife has actually done all three.

She's done the Apple Watch, a Fitbit or two, but more often than not is wearing garment.

And when I got my first Fitbit in 2013, it was transformative in so many ways.

It transformed how I approach health and fitness.

It, I think if I'm being honest, really transformed the way I do life.

And so I'm a huge, huge fan of step trackers, particularly if you are just getting started. So if you are listening to this podcast and you walk

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