Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us stay fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's take a walk.

It always makes me chuckle.

It's an inside chuckle, by the way.

When someone says to me, you must walk all day long.

This was particularly prevalent during my 20K one-year step challenge where I was being very public about walking 20,000 steps every day for a year.

And I heard that more than a few times wow you must walk all day long the implication is

that I roll out of bed start walking and don't stop until I climb back in bed that night because

I mean how else does someone get 20,000 steps unless they're walking all day long?

It was a bit of a mind-blowing activity when I did the math.

So how much am I walking to reach 20,000 steps?

And it was just shy of four hours, which is not nothing.

That's a lot of walking.

It's a lot of walking.

But then when I flipped that coin over, it was like, oh, that also means I'm not walking 20 hours a day.

I'm either sitting, sleeping, or standing still 20 hours a day.

I'm not walking 20 hours a day.

10,000 steps.

Requires about an hour and 40 minutes of walking throughout the day, which means, which is a lot of walking.

So I'm not minimizing the effort needed to reach 10,000 steps or 20,000 steps.

But you flip that coin over and you are not walking more than 22 hours a day.

So clearly, even when I was getting 20,000 steps a day for a year, I was not walking all day long.

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