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

It's a five-part plan that I believe could change your life. It's free. There's a link in the show

notes. Today I want to talk about the benefits of walking more. And if this is a brand new concept for

you, walking for fitness, walking for for exercise I really do believe it's a habit that

could change your life and it's a habit that you can fall in love with doesn't start there

but if you don't give up I think you'll find both of those true. It'll change your life and that you'll

fall in love with walking. On average, we get about, this is outside of walking as a fitness

activity or walking for exercise. On average, we get between three and four thousand steps a day.

I've actually seen several different numbers, some as low as into the 2000s, some as high as

4,500, maybe 5,000 steps a day. But on average, without being intentional about walking, we get

between 3,000 and 4,000 steps a day. Now this is going to be obviously dictated by factors that

are going to be different for each one of us. Age, lifestyle. Do you work? Are you

retired? If you work, does your job involve moving or a lot of sitting? If you're retired,

is your lifestyle more sedentary? Where you live is going to be a factor. If you live on a farm and you have a

mile long driveway and you walk to get your mail, it's going to be different than you open the door,

walk to the end of the sidewalk, get your mail and come back in. So where you live, the geography of where you live,

is going to have an impact, as well as the weather where you live.

If the weather is very cold or very hot,

that's going to have an impact on how much you're walking.

I think for most of us that's true.

I have had a few days, not many, but I've had a few days where,

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