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

Let's go for a walk. In fact, let's go for a walk and listen to the frogs.

I'm walking in an area that has, I think it's like a little pond, I can't go too far back here because I've had some rain and this area is again wet, but can you hear the frogs? I don't know how many there are. That's probably maybe 50 yards away. It's a pond swampy area back near where I'm walking this morning.

And I've done this before. I just think the sound of these frogs is pretty amazing.

And this is another morning where I can hear them and I just wanted you to enjoy the frogs as well.

Of course you might not enjoy frogs. You might be thinking, let's move on.

One of the things about walking that I have found incredibly motivating, in fact, it was really my fitness fuel in the early days, is this idea of competition.

But I've also heard from others that they don't like the competition, that the competition

can be demotivating.

And I read a blog post recently, someone who loves walking and talking about the

different benefits of walking. And one of the things that he mentioned is, again, as a benefit,

that there's no competition in walking. That that's a benefit.

There isn't this competitive spirit,

which I think, if I'm remembering correctly,

the post was actually comparing walking to running.

And with running, there is more competition. You're competing with others if you're

running in an event. Oftentimes you can be competing with yourself as you're training for an event or

running and your timing how fast you're going. And so competition can very much be part of running.

And probably, since I've done both, the competition is probably a little more intense in the

running world than it is among those who walk.

Most of us aren't competing with someone else when we're walking.

It's not a race. We're going out for our 10-minute walk or our 30-minute walk.

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