These Keen's were tailor made for walking.

For documentation purposes: I walked 12,276 steps yesterday. In my quest to live a really healthy youthful life, I've began to monitor yet another seemingly unimportant part of my daily routine; I've been monitoring my walking. To lose weight or to remain fit, a healthy person should walk about 10,000 steps a day. 2,000 steps = 1 mile, so yes, one should walk 5 miles a day. My interest was sparked when i read that the average motionless American walks about 3,000 steps a day. SO 1.5 miles. I've discussed why, and ways to change this in a previous blog. And in a mile, a person weighing about 150 or less can burn 100 calories, a 200 lbs person a little more. So people are eating 3,000 calories and only burning 150. For fear of succumbing to my body's predisposition to be overweight, I'm obsessed! I purchased a pedometer about a month ago and I wear it as often as I can remember I own it--which is about 2 or 3 times a week. What I've noticed is, it inspires me to be more active. If I've only walked about 1,500 steps during my work day, I make it a point to spend at least 30 minutes of my lunch break just WALKING around downtown. I think I'm going to walk to Point State Park during lunch today. I'm also inclined to take my dogs on longer walks just to make sure I get those steps in. I go to the gym more often as well! YES! I do feel really alive and happy. In addition to my walking, and cardiovascular routine, I'm going to reintroduce weight lifting into my fitness regimen. My gym offers MANY MANY free classes of which I'm going to be taking advantage. Tonight at 5:15 I'm going to a class called express abs it's a 15 minute class that focuses on abdominal muscle definition and strength. I'm really excited, i think this will give me the extra help i need to define my abs! And then I'll be going to a class at 5:30 called Circuit Training, which is 45 minutes of weight lifting training probably high reps of low weight. I need this! I'll blog about it tomorrow.