Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

So here's a question for you.

I've been pondering this.

Is it possible to have a walk that is too short?

I've been thinking about this.

Are there benefits, real benefits, to taking a really short walk?

Certainly, I believe there are benefits to taking a walk of 10 minutes, but I don't consider that a really short walk.

What about a walk of five minutes or a walk of one minute? Are there real

benefits to taking a one minute walk? In fact, could taking a one minute walk change your life?

I think the answer is yes. 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. All right, so let's talk about what I think are five very real benefits to taking a one-minute walk. Benefit number one, sitting. Sitting is dangerous. Research is

coming out, more research about the dangers of sitting. One study actually looked at the dangers

of sitting eight hours a day without getting up. I mean, you're just sitting,

sitting, sitting. You do that day after day after day. And the research pointed to the fact

that the long-term health implications of sitting eight hours a day is the same as smoking,

which is why someone called sitting the new

smoking. By the way, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for educational

and entertainment purposes only. And so it's dangerous to sit for long periods of time. And of course, the antidote to sitting for long periods of time is not sitting, getting up, moving, taking a walk.

The experts recommend that if you've got to sit for long periods of time, get up every 30 minutes and take a walk.

Take a one minute walk. If you can't do every 30 minutes, every hour.

And so that one-minute walk begins to change the dynamic, begins to lessen the danger of all that sitting.

And so that's a one-minute walk that could change your life. When I drive back to Maryland, I make it a point to stop a couple of times at least,

get out, take a short walk, just to break up all that sitting.

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