Have you considered giving the gift of walking?

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. It occurred to me that I have not given you an update recently

on whether I'm still wearing shorts or not.

Now that, of course, assumes that you actually care whether I'm still wearing shorts.

I live in South Carolina.

Temperatures here tend to be milder in the winter.

We still have winter.

January and February is when it really feels like winter.

Here in December, since we haven't yet hit the official start of winter, the meteorological

first day of winter, we cross that on December 1st. It is chillier here. It is cooler here. I had a neighbor tell me,

you know when you're really a South Carolina resident. That's when you're wearing shorts year-round.

So I don't know what I'm trying to prove. I'm seeing how long I can keep wearing the shorts.

As I'm walking, temperatures are in the low 50s, it's windy today, breezy,

and we have a wind chill in the 40s, and I am still wearing the shorts.

And I wondered, is that going to be a mistake as I was heading out of the house got a hoodie on ski cap I'm actually comfortable it's not too bad so yes I'm rocking the shorts if if you were wondering and even care so we're coming up on the holidays and as you consider gifts for the

people you love, have you thought about giving someone a step tracker? You've got obviously Fitbit,

you have the Apple Watch, Garmin, and there are others that I'm not fully aware of.

I've only used a Fitbit coming up on 10 years now.

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