Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk.

Ten thousand steps. It remains, I think, the gold standard. If you are walking as your fitness activity of choice, and you're serious about walking,

and you're committed to doing this consistently every day, and you are measuring your progress

by a step tracker, counting steps, the idea of 10,000 steps probably feels like, well, this is what I should be

aiming for. And maybe you're already doing that. Maybe you're walking 10,000 steps. Maybe you're

still in the journey and you're building that fitness capacity and you're working your way up to 10,000 steps. I do believe the 10,000

steps is a good goal. You don't need 10,000 steps for all the benefits of pursuing walking as a

fitness activity. But there are people who are walking 10,000 steps a day. It's

something they do regularly, or it's something that they do as a one-off, like Harry. Sounds like

Harry is someone who is not just beginning a fitness journey, that fitness and

exercise is a part of Harry's life, but in that context, Harry thought, I'm going to walk 10,000

steps a day for a year. I want to see what difference this makes. Harry's also a writer, so I'm sure

that factored in as well. This could be a good article, 10,000 steps every day for a year,

and I'll write about the impact that it has had on me. And so that's what Harry did. And earlier this

year wrote the article and talked about five benefits.

In fact, he calls them unexpected benefits.

So on the front end of this goal of 10,000 steps every day for a year,

Harry probably had some expectations.

I mean, how could you not?

But these benefits, according to Harry in this article, these were not expected.

You didn't see these coming.

Benefit number one.

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