Want to deepen a relationship?

Take a walk together.

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 because that really is the hardest part of fitness.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013 averaging just about 21,000 steps a day.

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

It is mild and muggy here in South Carolina, partly sunny, and at the moment,

the sun is partially hidden behind some clouds, which is actually a good thing, because full sun

here in South Carolina and that temperature instantly shoots

up and it's going to be it's going to be a warm one and I'm already feeling it.

But it is a beautiful morning. We've got a little bit of ground fog which is quickly burning

off.

Winds are light. And it's a beautiful time of day for a walk. And I hope it's nice where you are as well.

I'll never forget this day in 2018. It was late August. It was a Monday. I know it was a Monday because that was the day of the week that we babysat. Our grandson Judah, our daughter, his mother, worked one day a week as a server and had asked even before Judah was born if we would be willing to watch him that one day a week while

she was at work before her husband judah's dad got off his job to pick him up and we said sure

love to and so it was a Monday afternoon and we were in the car and we were in a state of shock

heading back to the house.

Grace and Judah were already at the house.

But Grace didn't have to leave for work for another hour.

And I suggested to Ava that we go take a walk and explain to Grace that her mom and I just needed to talk about something.

And so we were going to take a walk, which we did.

And that was really the first intentional walk that Ava and I took that began a pattern of walking together.

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