Today we're going to talk about an amazing source of fitness motivation that I've never used.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. In fact, I'm walking right now.

I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

The other night, Abe and I were walking through our neighborhood.

We were in the back part of the neighborhood when we saw Gerald.

Gerald lives in the back part of the neighborhood, but we know him.

And we stopped and we were talking with him.

And Gerald had his dog, Bama.

I'm not a dog person. I've owned one dog in my life. I was seven years old.

And best I can tell or best I remember, the dog was a mutt.

I think that's what my parents said.

And he was a mutt who wouldn't stop biting things, including me and my little sister.

So that experiment didn't last too long, and my parents got rid of Brownie after about seven months. That's it. That's the sum total of my dog ownership. Gerald has a dog. Don't know the kind. I suspect that under the

right circumstances, dog's name is Bama. If Bama were a little younger and you made him angry,

Bama could be a, you wouldn't want to be near Bama, but Bama was on a You wouldn't want to be near Bama

But Bama was on a leash

And Gerald was

Walking with Bama

And we stopped and we were

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