Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I got this message from Melanie.

Hi Dave, this morning I went for an especially great walk with you.

The reason it was such a great walk was that I realized I felt great.

My joints are more limber than they used to be. I can walk further without fatigue, dragging me down.

And I even have a more positive outlook instead of the poor me syndrome I could easily get into.

I can't walk as fast as I'd like to, but since I've been walking with you four or five times a week for at least 30 minutes each time,

I absolutely feel stronger and healthier.

I'm really grateful for you and grateful to feel tangible improvement.

Thank you.

Melanie, I can't tell you how much this message means to me.

It's why I do this podcast.

It's to help you and others find the extra motivation to pursue fitness, to take a walk, particularly on those days when you don't feel like it.

But what I really love about this, Melanie, is that you recognize the progress that you've made. Probably the greatest discouragement of pursuing fitness and pursuing exercise is that the

progress is so incremental, it's so slow, it's real progress. I mean, what we're doing, this walk we're taking has real benefits, as tangible benefits.

But from one day to the next, even from one week to the next, and perhaps from one month to the next,

it's hard to see that progress, to feel that progress.

But you recognize how much stronger you are, how much stronger you feel, how much better you

feel, because of your commitment to walking every day. And I love that. Melanie also, by the way, bought the podcast

five coffees to help support the podcast. Melanie, thanks so much for that. Jill also is supporting

the podcast. Jill's a longtime listener, longtime friend of walking his fitness. She says,

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