Two reasons why it is so hard to get started with fitness and what you can do about it.

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.

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

We are still in that weather pattern here in Myrtle Beach.

As you can probably tell, it is raining not as heavy as it was yesterday,

but we've still got another morning of rain.

Things are supposed to start clearing out later today,

at least giving us a little bit of sunshine tomorrow,

and I think everybody around here is looking forward to that.

One of the themes that I see pretty consistently on the start today Facebook group are posts from folks who have joined the group and their posts are a variation on the theme.

I really want to do this. I see you all are doing it, but I'm having a really hard time getting

started. I believe that there are two primary reasons why it is hard to get started on a brand new

fitness journey.

Number one, there's just too much friction, and number two, it's just not fun.

And what I mean by friction are all those things that provide resistance to actually doing the activity.

For example, you make a commitment, you make a promise, you wake up and you look out and it's rainy, might even be chilly, and that's resistance, because that is,

for most of us, not comfortable. And so we kick the can down the road and say, tomorrow. Or maybe

it's a beautifully sunny day, but it's really cold. And so the resistance, the friction is not only the discomfort of

the cold weather, but you have to layer up. You have to get the hat. You have to get the gloves.

You have to do all these things that provide a little bit of resistance. For those who go to the gym, that friction involves

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