How do you know when you have fitness momentum?

Let's talk about it. 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 to yourself.

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

Still taking intentional fitness walk every single day.

I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

If you're just getting started on a brand new fitness journey and you've decided to make a fitness promise to walk every day or consistently.

Maybe that promise is for 10 minutes. Great way to start. 20 minutes. Maybe you're

gauging your walk by distance, so you're walking around the block, maybe a mile, or perhaps you're

tracking your steps, counting your steps, and so your goal is based on the number of steps

at the end of the day. And you've made a fitness promise to get started. Job number one, goal

number one, is to build a fitness habit.

It takes a long time. Building habits is really, really hard.

Takes a lot longer than, I think, most of us believe.

We've been told 30 days, 30 days, and you've got a habit.

James Clear, the expert on habits, indicates, it on average takes about 66 days to build a habit.

For some they can do it in less, others take a lot longer.

So typically it's going to take you and me more than two months to build a habit.

And a lot of those days leading up to a habit formation can feel like a grind.

I mean, you've got that initial burst of motivation.

Yay, this is great.

I'm pursuing fitness.

That won't last but a week maybe two.

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