Today, an idea that is so simple, yet so brilliant, that it could be a real game changer

for you when it comes to fitness. 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've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

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

Once again, out a little before sunrise. And once again,

it is hot and sticky. And I'm walking along this wooded trail that I've really come to enjoy.

It does have a downside, though. And that is, it seems to be be, well it seems is actually wrong, it actually is.

It is bugger than the other places where I walk and talk to you.

So if you hear me slap it myself, it's because I've got a mosquito the size of a tiger that's trying to suck

some blood out of me. I mean, they're big. So yesterday I mentioned Marcy, who is one of the new

supporters of this podcast, and there's a mosquito right now going from my forehead, who is one of the new supporters of this podcast, and there was a mosquito right now going from my forehead, who is one of the

new supporters of this podcast, and she left a comment when she made her donation, and I skipped

over a line, something that she does in conjunction with her fitness promise that I think is simply brilliant.

So if you're new to walking as fitness, let me explain what a fitness promise is.

We talk about a fitness promise instead of a fitness goal.

And a fitness promise is you make a promise to yourself to walk every day, whether it's for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30

minutes, a mile, two miles, around the block, whatever works for you. And you make that promise

for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, I recommend 90 days.

Every 90 days you kind of reevaluate the promise and change it, keep it the same way it is,

or make it a little more challenging or maybe a little less challenging.

But that's the promise.

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