Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which will add another link to your growing fitness chain.

It's one of those mornings when I'm waking up while I'm walking. You ever have that? If you walk in the morning and you walk early in the morning and there's really not a

whole lot of time between when you roll out of bed and when you start your walk it's one of those

mornings where I'm feeling groggy I think I got a decent night's sleep but I'm feeling the groggy

and tell you what let? Let me stop here.

Pull up my Fitbit app.

And see exactly what my sleep score is.

Okay, not bad.

A sleep score of 83,

but I'm still in the process of waking up.

Valerie made a commitment, a goal, to walk at least 10,000 steps.

On day six, Valerie said, this is getting harder.

This isn't getting easier. This is getting harder. This isn't getting easier.

This is getting harder.

I don't know if I can keep doing this.

You ever felt that way?

About a week into a fitness goal,

whether it's 10,000 steps or walking 10 minutes a day,

it feels like it's getting harder.

And you start asking the question,

can I keep this up? I talk a lot about fitness capacity when you're just getting started.

You're growing your fitness capacity. If you've been inactive for a while, maybe you've got a little more weight than you want and moving is hard your fitness capacity

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