What is the craziest thing you've ever done to get steps?

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. All right, before we dive into the topic and begin

answering the question, what's the craziest thing you've ever done

to get steps? I want to acknowledge up front that there is a line that can be crossed where the

pursuit of fitness is no longer a healthy pursuit and a fun pursuit, but become something far

different. I'm reminded of, I think it was

Dr. Phil years ago, one of his guests was a woman who spent her day, every day, in her house

walking around a coffee table in her living room, doing laps in pursuit of 100,000 steps every day.

I'm not a licensed psychologist. I'm not even an unlicensed psychologist. I'm not a medical

professional, but I simply want to recognize and acknowledge that there is a line that can be crossed.

Instead, what we're talking about today is as you begin pursuing fitness and using walking as exercise, you start recognizing and

understanding that you don't always have to sit.

When the rest of the world, seemingly, is sitting, because this is what we do, in these

circumstances, you don't have to. And it becomes an opportunity to get up and move for a bit.

And what actually brought this to mind was a post I saw on Facebook,

woman in Indiana, who was using walking as her exercise, as her physical activity, fitness activity.

She found herself on a freeway in a traffic jam where everyone had come to a complete stop.

They had actually shut the freeway down because of a very serious accident.

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