How do you find the time to walk 10,000 steps a day?

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 started walking for fitness in 2013, still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

There's a bit of today's episode that is going to sound a little contradictory to things that I've said in the past. So I'm going to say those again and double down on how important they are.

10,000 steps a day is a great goal.

There are tons of benefits.

There's now research behind the long-term health benefits of actually walking 10,000

steps a day. It's no longer simply this big round number that's rooted in 1960s marketing

campaign for a Japanese pedometer. We now can point to 10,000 steps and say, yep, there's actually

science research behind reaching this number

every single day, and it is a worthy goal. It's a great goal. It's also a terrible, terrible starting

goal. For most people, it's like adding 6,000 steps because the average person gets about 4,000 steps a day.

Now, depending on what research you read, it could be a little bit higher than that, could be a little bit lower than that, but it's kind of in that general number.

And to go from 4,000 to 10,000 requires a lot of extra walking.

And so someone who's just getting started aims for 10,000 requires a lot of extra walking. And so someone who's just getting started aims for 10,000 steps,

and maybe they reach it at for a day or two or three, maybe even a week.

And then they realize, this is kicking my butt.

This is discouraging.

And they're putting all this effort into reaching 10,000 steps.

And the only thing that they're getting in return is I am so tired. This is not fun.

And that's a dangerous combination for getting a brand new fitness journey started.

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