Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave.

If you're brand new, welcome.

Thank you for trying the podcast out.

I want to offer you 90 days to a walking habit you'll love.

It's a five-part plan that I believe will change your life. And that's not an

exaggeration. It's free. There's a link in the show notes. 10,000 steps. Is it really worth it to walk

10,000 steps? If you're new to walking as a fitness activity, no doubt you're

aware of the 10,000 step a day goal. It's been talked about, promoted, touted by so many for so long

now that I think most of us when we come to walking as a fitness

activity as exercise we think well that's what we should be doing 10,000 steps.

That should be the daily goal and we get a step tracker and if you're like me the first day that you wear that step

tracker and you're tracking how many steps there's this eye-opening experience oh oh this is going to be

a lot harder than I thought because 10,000 steps is not an easy goal.

And to some degree, that almost reinforces the value of reaching 10,000 steps.

Oh, this is going to be really hard, so it must be really valuable.

Well, for a long time, there was no research or science behind 10,000 steps.

It actually started in the mid-60s.

It was a Japanese marketing campaign around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

There was a pedometer that was marketed.

It was actually given the name that in Japanese meant 10,000 step meter. And this marketing campaign was hugely successful. And it stuck,

10,000 step meter, 10,000 steps. Plus, it's a big round number. 10,000 steps is a whole lot more interesting than, say, 8,342 steps.

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