I had a rather interesting conversation with myself before doing today's episode.

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've been walking for fitness

since 2013 averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have

you join me for the next 10 minutes. Skies are threatening. I checked the weather app before

leaving the house and I was told rain may form in the next 60 minutes.

Within the last two minutes, the wind has picked up and maybe you can hear that.

And it looks like there is some rain off to the north.

Yeah, I can see clear rain bands.

I don't see any lightning, don't hear any thunder, so it's possible that I may just get wet while I'm out walking, which actually would not be a bad

thing because it's kind of humid this morning and a nice light, brief shower would feel pretty good.

Today's topic is looking at the impact of exercise on living longer. We've been told over and over and over and over again that if you consistently exercise at least 150 minutes per week, moderate level, so for walking,

that would be moving at three miles an hour.

Break that down, it's about a 30-minute, maybe a 25-minute walk every day at three miles an hour.

And the long-term benefit of that is a lowered risk of a bunch of illnesses and diseases.

You lower your risk of what they say is dying early, prematurely, or flip that around, you'll live longer.

So I thought, well, let's talk about that.

Let's talk about that benefit of exercise, that benefit of this walk that you and I take every day.

So my first question was, well, how much longer do we get?

Did some research on the Internet, expecting a clear and distinct answer to pop up when I

type that in.

And that's not what I found.

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