I am a big fan of short walks and today we're going to talk about five super-sized benefits of super short walks.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to walking as fitness. This is a daily podcast that provides a little added motivation for you to get out and take

the walk to stay consistent with this fitness activity. And today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

And you can probably hear the lawnmower up ahead. Looks like a crew of three who are landscaping one of the community pools,

which I will be walking near in just a moment.

So I've got one guy on the lawnmower and two who are trimming the edges and it just hopped off the

lawnmower so that's going to at least eliminate some of that noise momentarily

but now you can hear the gas powered tremors so this is going to be part of the walk for just a few moments and

they're getting started early in the morning because it's going to be a hot

South Carolina day and I mean they will probably be cutting doing their

landscaping doing the landscaping all day long but I imagine they get started as early as

they can to beat some of the heat so I want to share with you a message from a listener who says

I took your advice about making my walk shorter took your advice about making my walk shorter.

I think there are times when we minimize the benefits of short bursts of fitness.

And I'm even going to remove the word burst because that that can make it

sound like, hang on, got a car coming. Okay, they see me. I'm crossing the street. I don't want to make

the assumption that they see me and the guy's now back on the lawnmower, but I'm going to be walking further away from that.

And then on the other side down the street,

got somebody else who's doing some landscaping.

I think a lot of times we place a lot of emphasis,

maybe even way more than we should, on the benefits of long exercise,

long periods of fitness, the value of taking a long walk, 30 minutes, 60 minutes. I've heard from

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