If you ever find yourself struggling with fitness boredom, here's one way you can change things up.

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. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So if you consider people on a scale, on a sliding scale, on one end are those who need constant change.

On the other end are people who want to do the same thing, the same way, at the same time, every day.

That's more of where I am, but not entirely. I do find myself occasionally fighting boredom,

even with fitness, even with fitness.

Even with walking for fitness, as much as I love doing this, and I really do,

there are days when it's, I just feeling the need to change things up.

And there are actually several ways to do that.

Probably the most common, maybe even the easiest,

at least for me, is to change my walking route.

I can walk at different times of the day.

But lately, candidly, I have been feeling a little bit of this fitness boredom,

and it has nothing to do with where I'm walking, or what time of day I'm walking, or even how I'm walking. What it actually has to do with is what I'm listening to while I'm walking.

Because this is a big part of my walking routine, having headphones in and listening to podcasts.

And I've mentioned that generally my podcast choices tend to focus on finances and retirement.

But lately, as I'm getting ready to leave the house, and I'm thinking through, okay, what podcasts am I going to listen to?

And lately it's been, I just don't feel like it.

Maybe I'm getting tired of thinking about it.

Maybe I feel like I'm hearing the same things over and over again, and it's like,

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