Welcome to Walking is Fitness, the podcast. Hi, friends. I'm Dave. And this week I'm going to let you know

about a big change that is coming to this podcast and in just moments, you're going to be the first to hear a preview of what the new Walking his fitness podcast will sound like. Before we go there,

I want to take you back a few years. The original idea for walking as fitness was actually a

podcast. I've been walking for fitness for years, and I was getting about 15,000 steps a day and one of the things that I had heard from

so many people was who wore Fitbits was I wish I could get more steps or I had a goal and I fell short

and it was all along the lines of wanting to do more than they were actually doing.

Now, I was trying to figure out a way to create a podcast that could help people walk more

and actually came up with the idea of a daily podcast that would offer ideas, inspiration, and motivation to get more steps.

And I was going to call that podcast More Steps with Dave.

And as I got to practicing that podcast, the more I did it, the more it sounded dumb, really dumb. And after a while, decided to

scrap the idea. But at the same time, I was also writing an accompanying blog, and I liked

the way that that felt. So I transitioned the idea from a podcast,

a daily podcast, to a weekly blog. I did that for a couple of years before reintroducing the

podcast, which started as me simply reading the blog, for those who would prefer prefer to listen as opposed to read the article.

And then just a few months ago, transitioned from reading the article to me talking about the

article as I took a walk.

But I kept thinking about this original idea of a daily podcast for people who are walking

and realize that the need isn't so much motivation and inspiration. It really is about

accountability. Fitness is hard. Walking for fitness every day is hard some days maybe not as hard as others but

some days it's really hard and if there were a daily podcast waiting for you where we are

holding each other accountable as we take a walk each day creating creating and maintaining that lifestyle of fitness, I thought

that's something that could have real value. So on December 1st, walking as fitness is going to

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