Can walking change your life? Spoiler alert? The answer is yes, but sometimes in ways you

don't expect and maybe don't even fully appreciate until 43 years later. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to

Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation

to get out the door, take the walk, and even more importantly, to keep going to build a consistent

life-changing habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

I'm guessing the weather experts would call this a foggy morning. Although it's a weird kind of fog.

It is hanging maybe 25, 30 feet above the ground.

So at ground level, things look fairly clear clear but you get up 25 30 feet then it

starts having that foggy quality. Tops of trees in the distance are shrouded in fog.

So can walking change your life. Let's start with the low hanginghanging fruit. And again, the answer, the spoiler alert, the answer is yes.

The low-hanging fruit, a consistent habit of walking can reduce the risk of an early death.

So potentially, extra days, weeks, months, years years added onto your life because of a consistent

habit of walking, the reality is you'll never know, I'll never know.

We're not given a slip of paper at the end saying because you walked every day or most

days, you got an extra 3.2 years.

I mean, it doesn't happen.

So walking can change your life in ways involving your long-term health and your short-term health.

I mean, it doesn't happen immediately.

You know, if you started walking, building that habit on January 1st you know these types of long-term risk

reductions you know don't happen in the first week in fact it's possible that you're even

feeling worse right now if you went from sedentary to walking,

you might be sore in ways that you hadn't been sore.

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