Steven Bartlett

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We don't do much of that these days.

It seems to have gone out of fashion with all the Ubers and the other ways to get around and all the sedentary behavior that we do living and working in offices.

What should we know about walking and how important it is?

Because I'll be honest, I don't walk that much.

Wow.

Dying of anything?

Why?

It has a completely different meaning when you understand the real sort of human consequences it can have on someone's life, for better or for worse.

And it's not often until we have some kind of injury or issue that we realize that our feet and ankles were there.

And that's certainly been the case in my life.

It wasn't until I got plantar fasciitis that I was like, oh my God, I should have been doing something about this sooner.

And then as I told you before we started recording, I've currently got a high ankle sprain.

So I've pulled some ligaments in the top of my ankle training for this game called Soccer Aid.

So I'm now going through the whole process once again of like figuring out what I did wrong and what I should have been doing as a preventative measure to try and strengthen my feet.

One of the things I think most of us get wrong is our footwear choices.

Yes.