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How Fit Can You Get From Just Walking?

Walking is good for you, obviously. But can it whip you into shape?

In our group chat, a few friends made a commitment to walking 10,000 steps a day and tracking our food. We aimed for about 2,000 calories. After four months following those guidelines, my friend John Sharkman dropped 43 pounds. Collectively the group chat was down 105. Those are life-changing, infomercial-pitch numbers. Some caveats obviously apply: losing weight is hard, and keeping it off is even harder. Your mileage will almost certainly vary. But the whole experience made me wonder: just how fit can you get from just walking?

"I think walking is probably the single most underutilized tool in health and wellness," says nutrition coach and personal trainer Jeremy Fernandes. According to Fernandes, the reason we rarely hear about walking as a major fitness tool - in the same conversations as stuff like yoga or expensive spinning bikes - is that people aren't emotionally prepared for fitness to be easy.

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