Today I'm going to tell you something about myself that might actually surprise you.

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

In addition to this podcast, you may know this. i also have a website and a blog which is

actually four years old it started before the podcast by the way if you are a subscriber to the

blog and you've noticed you haven't posted anything in a while thank Thank you for being observant. I'm actually in the

process of retooling what that weekly blog will be about. So it's coming. Thank you for your patience.

One of my most popular blog articles, and I don't know if it's because people who were actually

searching for this topic, I have a hard time believing that. Or if, for whatever reason, Google's

algorithms served it up when they were searching for something to do with walking 20,000 steps.

The title of the article is the downside to walking 20,000 steps a day.

And briefly, it was a confession of mine that, as I have pursued fitness and increased my fitness capacity and the number of steps I walk

every day, the downside of that is I don't sit well. I have a hard time sitting for long car

rides or long flights. I have a hard time sitting in long meetings.

My daughter, at the time, I wrote the article, played volleyball,

and she would have these be part of these day-long tournaments,

and I would have a hard time sitting for a day-long tournament. And there were some other things that I mentioned

in the article. And that was the downside. The downside to walking 20,000 steps a day. Now,

if you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time, you've heard me talk quite a bit about the benefits of moving more and sitting less and how I've, over the years, developed a lifestyle of fitness where my default is to move as opposed to sit. And I still believe all of that. Nothing has changed

there. Blaise Pascal, he was the French philosopher, once wrote, all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

I don't remember when I read this quote, when I heard this for the first time, when I saw it.

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