Thankfully, Chelsea didn't give up after her first failed attempt.

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

because isn't that really the hardest part of fitness? Hi, I'm Dave. I've

been walking for fitness since 2013 averaging just about 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now

and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. Sun is up, temperature is following, so is the humidity.

It is a typical summer day in South Carolina,

although I'm out a little bit later than usual.

I'm still out before the heat of the day.

Also have decided to walk through a wooded area near my home, so that's providing some shade,

and it's really quite comfortable. Hope it is as nice where you are as well.

Ran across an article online written by Chelsea, her last name alludes me at the moment. It is published in the Independent,

which is a UK-based, I guess, newspaper. And Chelsea lives in New York, and she is the New York

correspondent, New York writer for the independent. And the article is titled

What I Gained and Lost in parentheses by walking 10,000 steps a day for five months. So at the

beginning of 2021, Chelsea says that she has a friend who made a commitment, New Year's resolution, to walk 10,000 steps a day.

Started on January 2nd, he invited Chelsea to try the same goal, and she half-heartedly agreed.

As I said, January is the worst time to begin a fitness commitment,

particularly one that involves being outside in New York City.

It didn't go well.

She made a few half-hearted attempts in January and February.

She says by March she had pretty much abandoned the goal of 10,000 steps a day.

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