Today I'm going to throw some numbers at you, and then I'm going to ask you to forget those numbers,

and instead remember a two-word takeaway phrase. In fact, it's something that I had never thought

about until prepping for this episode.

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

So if you've been listening in the last several days,

I've been talking about the temperature here in South Carolina,

a little cooler than normal, I am determined to wear shorts as long into the autumn and maybe even the winter season

as I can because of a neighbor of our said, that's how you know when you're really a South

Carolina resident, when you're wearing shorts year round.

So I thought, well, okay.

Sure. Where I struggle isn't so much when my legs are cold,

it's when my ears are cold. And so today I'm not wearing my ski cap, but I have it with me just in case. And so far, pretty comfortable.

It's a beautiful morning.

I hope it's nice where you are as well.

Yesterday began talking about this massive research on walking that produced what I thought should be, you know, this huge headline, which I haven't

really seen too much of.

I've seen some news organizations cover the research, but not in the manner that I would have

expected.

And the takeaway that we talked about yesterday is the 10,000 steps.

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