Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself and

will add another link to your growing fitness chain.

The temperature is lower this morning and it is also windy, so we are talking wind chills today.

At the moment, I'm walking past a really nice grove of trees.

If you are a brand new listener, live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, about two miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

And that's where the wind is coming from today, except these trees are my friend. Thank you. So we've talked about the value of a fitness promise, focusing on the process and not the end goal. We all have a reason why we're pursuing fitness. We all have something that we want to

accomplish by doing this. The challenge is when we focus on the end result, it can really be

discouraging because progress takes a long time. Instead, it's better to focus on the process,

what I'm going to do today. Make a fitness promise. I promise myself

today I'm going to walk and then fill in the blank, whatever that is for you. Today I want to talk

about the value of 10,000 steps. It tends to be the default when we start walking for fitness.

That's what we hear the goal should be.

We walk 10,000 steps.

You should walk 10,000 steps.

We all should walk 10,000 steps.

Is 10,000 steps a good goal?

I'd actually like to propose a different way to look at this.

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.

First off, let's talk about the benefits of walking 10,000 steps.

That 10,000 step goal actually started in the mid-60s by a Japanese pedometer company.

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