Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

You can probably already tell that today's walk is going to be a little different, at least for me.

I am inside using my walking desk, the treadmill that I have with my walking desk.

I am in my home office, which does not have carpet, a lot of hard surfaces, so there's a bit more

of an echo-y effect to what I'm doing. My treadmill is from lifespan.

Now, when you think of treadmills, sometimes you think of the big treadmills that they have in gyms.

And we actually had one of those treadmills years ago when we lived in Maryland.

And we had it down in our basement and that thing took up

a huge amount of space. It was massive. Well, now you can get treadmills that are much smaller and

sometimes they're even called walking pads. And so the treadmill that I have now from lifespan

fits nicely under my standing desk so when I'm using it, it can become a walking desk.

But I want to talk today about the seven benefits of taking your walk using a treadmill.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. So benefit number one is the same as walking outside. And that is you get the same long-term and short-term health benefits using a treadmill as you would walking outside.

In other words, this is not a less-than way to walk.

It's different because there are things about this walk that I'm taking today

that are very different from the walks that I take when I'm outside.

But in terms of the health benefits, same thing here.

So that's benefit number one to using a treadmill for your walking workout.

Number two, all kinds of flexibility using a treadmill.

For example, outside right now, it's rather cold.

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