Are you prepared for the danger zone?

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 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 I would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. We are approaching what I call the danger zone for fitness.

We're heading into the holiday season, end of year.

This is when schedules get a little crazy.

We start feeling things either good or bad.

And it's when if you're going to push pause or drift away from your

fitness pursuit, this is when it typically will happen. There's a danger, not because you're going to lose

everything that you've worked towards. Although, if you push pause long enough, that is a

possibility. I've seen research indicating, now this is for runners, but I think there's a

principle here, that runners can lose their fitness, their aerobic capacity if they stop running for 72 days.

So if you stop pursuing fitness for a few days, even a week or two, you're not going to

lose everything.

Maybe after a couple of weeks, you might start to lose some of your fitness capacity.

The danger really isn't in pushing pause for a few days that you lose everything.

That's not the danger.

The danger is when that pause starts to extend, restarting is hard.

So we're entering a season where it's tempting to push pause. And I believe one of the reasons it's really tempting is because January 1st is right up ahead. And it's easy to convince ourselves, you know, life right now is just crazy.

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