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Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action.

Plenty of podcasts that are educational, entertaining, and even inspiring.

This really isn't one of those.

Instead, we are walking together, holding each other

accountable for creating a lifestyle of fitness. And that makes this a podcast of action. Hi, I'm Dave.

A little bit later this morning than usual. Of course, you'd have no way of knowing that if I didn't mention it.

Typically, I walk pretty early in the morning, but today I had something to do for work that required

me to hang in my home office this morning. And so I had a choice to make. I could either get up

even earlier than normal and get out here and walk while it was still dark and frost was all over everything and the temperature is around 30 degrees or I could wait a few hours until those responsibilities were done and then take a walk and the sun is up and the temperature is up and the frost has

melted away is gone and it's actually rather nice so given the choice between a an early morning freezing walk or B a much later walk that is sunny and certainly not freezing,

actually very comfortable.

I chose Ding, ding, ding, b.

And I'm so glad that I did.

So yesterday, finished the day with about 21,000 steps on my Fitbit Inspire 2.

And that raises the question which has been asked,

Dave, why do you walk 20,000 steps a day?

And usually the unspoken part of that question is, and do I expect or recommend that

others walk 20,000 steps a day? And let me answer the second part first. Absolutely not. I do not

expect nor recommend that you walk 20,000 steps a day. In fact,

you don't need to. If you look at the CDC recommendations for activity, moderate level

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