I got a question from someone about walking less. Is that something they should do? We'll unpack that during today's walk. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily podcast to encourage you to create and sustain a habit of walking. Today's 10-minute walk starts in just a moment.

At the moment, I'm walking on an access road

that is not used regularly because it really doesn't go anywhere.

It used to be an access road to somewhere,

now it's just an empty road. in a moment I'm going to be

connecting to a sidewalk that is right next to a wode right next to a wode right next to a road

it's right next to a road that actually has quite a bit of traffic so the sound of traffic is going to pick up as we are going through this 10-minute walk together.

Stephen writes,

Thanks to you, I've been doing about 10,000 steps each day.

However, sometimes I skip a day, and I think that's very okay.

By the way, I've recently seen several YouTube videos that recommend walking less for older people.

I'm 79 this year and don't feel any need to walk less.

Still, not sure of the advantages of walking less as the videos don't seem to say why,

only recommending maybe other activities like weights to some extent. I do go to the gym a couple of times

a week for weights to not lose muscle, but I found that walking strengthened my back as I was having

a problem in one area of my back

and sometimes had to use a cane.

I don't need a cane now, so I attribute that to walking each day.

Thoughts?

And then this person responds to Steven's comment,

Wow, you're doing great.

I love your strategy and find it very encouraging.

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