Why counting your steps can change the way you see exercise
I still remember when my phone buzzed one evening: 10,214 steps. A tiny confetti animation danced across the screen, and I felt way too proud for someone who had mostly walked around the grocery store and chased after a slightly rebellious dog that kept pulling toward squirrels. But that little number, those steps, it did something to me. It made the invisible visible. It was proof that I had moved, that my body had carried me through an ordinary day that suddenly looked more like a quiet victory.
Walking is ordinary, yes. But sometimes ordinary is powerful.
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