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Is there a difference between exercise and movement? We consider walking a sort of movement and non exercise activity, if you will. But technically speaking, walking is still exercise. But the way that we think about it is, for us, the exercise is, is more formal. It's where we breathe hard, lift weights, try to get stronger, try to, you know, increase our cardio and all those things. But walking is what human beings need to be doing, and human beings need to be moving a lot. And so that's sort of the differentiation for us. What we noticed years ago, we owned a gym for many years, and what we noticed is that many of our members would come in and work out really hard for a whole hour, but then probably go and spend the remainder of their day pretty sedentary. And some research actually started coming out that if you work out for an hour a day, but then sit for your remaining waking hours of the day, it effectively cancels out the workout you did. And I think what that tells us is that human beings need to move. We need to move a lot and often, and that doing one hour of a workout in a day is great. We need to do that. Like Kelly said, we need to lift weights and we need to breathe hard, we need to sort of put ourselves into those positions, but we also need to be moving around a lot throughout our day. And what we think is the simplest and most human way to do that is by doing a lot of walking. And so we prescribe that everybody in this book walk 8,000 steps a day. And we consider that a form of what's technically known as non exercise activity.