I walked how far?

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've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now,

and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Going to be another muggy day in South Carolina.

Hot as well, but as is usually the case, I'm walking early

in the morning. Actually, the sun has already risen, but the temperature will follow suit soon

enough, but at the moment, it actually feels comfortable. The skies, probably more

clouds than sun right now, and barely a breeze at all. Really, it's a great day for a walk,

and I hope it is nice where you are as well. Thanks for walking with me today. So when you

walk for fitness, there are really three basic ways that you measure what you're doing. It's either

through steps, a number of steps. If you have a step tracker like a Fitbit, a Garmin, it is time. Time is the second

way. I'm going to take a 10-minute walk, 20-minute walk, 30-minute walk, walk for an hour. And the

third way is distance. How many miles do you walk? And I think what tends to happen when you get started

walking for fitness, particularly if you are counting your steps, before you get the step

tracker and you know exactly how many steps you're getting over the course of a day,

most of us tend to overestimate how many steps we walk a day. And we experience that first day

fitbit shock. We've heard forever 10,000 steps, and we know that we are moving all day long.

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