If you want to reach 10,000 steps a day, take a lesson from the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.

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

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

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

Recently, someone posed this question on the start today Facebook group, and I'm sort of paraphrasing

here.

It's a question about 10,000 steps.

And this person says, a lot of you seem to make that a daily goal.

Does anyone have a desk job like me for nine and a half hours a day and still get those in.

She says, okay, weekends, I can probably do this, but during the week, not getting more than

four to five thousand steps a day.

And there were a bunch of answers.

I'm going to read these as I'm walking, which is always

really interesting. Someone said use stairs as much as possible. When you need to talk with someone,

you can walk to their office rather than instant message or email. Diane, I have a desk job, walk three to four miles in the morning.

The rest is just from walking around.

Cat says half hour at lunch, half hour after work.

Drink a lot of water, so I use the restroom two floors down.

At least one or two times a week. Well, that's pretty creative.

Park far from your building, take the stairs, walk during lunch break, and you get the idea. These are

the types of answers that were recommended. The U.S. Navy has a precision flying team called

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