All right. Are you ready to do this thing, this 10-minute walk together?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes,

holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness. This episode is

sponsored by the Step Fit Plan.

This is a guide to help you transition your walking from merely functional,

the walking we do every day that we don't even think about,

from functional to fitness walking.

That is walking that really rises to the level of exercise as defined by the CDC.

And this transition is a little more challenging than it might appear.

I've been walking about 20,000 steps every day for years now.

And I look back at how I transition my walking from functional to fitness.

And I kind of figured it out as I went.

And so I've reverse engineered that and put it down in the step fit plan to guide you to making this transition from functional walking

to fitness walking. It's effective. The guide is free and it is yours at walking as fitness.com.

You can check out the resource page. There's also a link in the show notes for today's episode.

Hi, I'm Dave on On August 24th, 2018, I made a public announcement on Facebook that I was going to be walking 20,000 steps every day for a year without missing a single day.

I was going to start that challenge in one week on September 1st,

and I would be posting every day on Facebook and Instagram

how many steps I reached that day,

along with a picture that I took during my walk.

Three days later, Ava told me that she had discovered a lump.

She went and had it checked out and then biopsied,

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