All right, are you ready to do this thing, this 10-minute walk together?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable

for keeping our commitment to fitness. Hi, this is Dave.

This episode is sponsored by the StepFit Plan. I routinely get 20,000 steps every day. I've

been doing that for years. In fact, had a stretch of about two years where I did 20,000 plus steps every day without missing a single day.

But here's the thing. I didn't start there. Not even close. Not even close.

Making walking my fitness activity took time. It took me kind of figuring things out how do I how do I do

this so that it has the health benefits of exercise and how do I do it consistently how do I make

it a habit how do I get momentum how do I keep it fun how do I make it a habit? How do I get momentum? How do I keep it fun? How do I make this a part of my lifestyle?

And I reverse engineered all of that and created the step-fit plan, which is a guide to help you transition

your walking from functional.

That's the walking that we do every day that we don't even think about, to transition from

functional to fitness walking. It's fun, it's effective, it's free, and it's yours. Go to

walking is fitness.com, the resource page. There's also a link in the show notes

for this episode. All right, here we are. If you listened yesterday, I was out in some very

uncomfortable and unfun weather.

When I made that determination that walking would be my fitness activity,

yesterday's weather was not what I had in mind that, oh, I can't wait to be doing this

and temperatures that have a 23- degree wind chill and a pretty consistent rain.

Today, it's almost the same weather minus the rain.

Wind chills right now as I'm walking 25 and skies there's a decent cloud cover but enough breaks in the clouds that I'm not worried about precipitation

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