Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

So let's go for a walk.

Can you hear the frog?

I'm walking on an old access road and there's a field that I'm standing right next to

and there's a stream that's maybe 10 yards away, and I'm thinking

that the frog is in there. It's also early in the morning. I tend to head out before sunrise,

so I don't really have a whole lot of light to see what's what, but I could hear the frog,

and now I can't.

Oh, there it is.

I want to talk about something that I used to talk about a lot, but haven't talked about in a while. And I think it's important.

And if you're a new listener and fitness is hard and you're feeling that difficulty.

You've been struggling with making this a habit.

You like the idea of walking every day,

but actually applying it and getting it to stick.

That's more of a challenge.

And so what I want to talk about is the importance of making a fitness promise instead of a fitness goal, the importance of building a fitness chain, and how that can help

you establish the habit. Because habits are hard. And maybe it's the hardest part of exercise

is getting into the daily consistent habit of doing exercise and in this case we're talking

about walking walking for fitness walking for exercise. Oftentimes, what is that initial

motivation, that initial fuel to get started is the goal that we set, the reason that we want to

pursue exercise. And for many people, that goal is centered around weight, how we look.

Maybe it's, now you can hear the frogs? It's centered around how we look, how we feel.

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