Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent. Hi, I'm Dave. Let's take a walk.

This is a rare walk for me. Actually, let me reframe that. It's rare in terms of doing the podcast.

I love walking in the morning, and that's when I record almost all of the

episodes of walking as fitness in the morning before the sun comes up. Well, as I'm walking,

it is dark, but it is after the sun has gone down. So I am taking an evening walk and it is chilly

and it actually is really refreshing. And so this is something different for me. It's a way to

kind of change it up and and keep it it fresh and I recommend once you've got a habit established

to find ways to change it up take a walk in the evening instead of in the morning to take a walk in the

middle of the day to take two walks take three walks find ways to change it up and to keep it fresh. I don't know if you saw the

research that just came out. This was research that was published November 12th in the British

Journal of Sports Medicine. I've seen this research now in a couple of different places.

Charlie sent me a link to one of the articles, and then shortly after I saw another article,

and the headlines are pretty attention-grabbing, and I'll get to that in a moment.

But the research wanted to look at the impact of exercise of movement of fitness on longevity on the length of life and so that they were

comparing apples to apples the researchers converted all activity into the equivalent in walking minutes.

So to be clear, I'm going to be talking about this in the context of walking,

but the people that were part of this research project, their activity of choice

wasn't just walking. They were involved in, I'm sure, a wide variety of activities. But so

that the researchers could compare apples to apples, they converted all of that activity into the equivalent in walking

minutes. And I don't know what kind of math they use, but these are researchers, so they

figured it out. And so they divided these people who were part of this research into four

groups. And each group represented 25%. The first group

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