Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to keep that promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under

21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10

minutes or so. It is a sunny, warm, and breezy day here in South Carolina. I'm actually out a little

bit later than usual for my walk. Typically, I

wake up pretty early, a cup of coffee, and then I'm out before the sun rises. But today I had a

project to do for work, first thing. I took a little bit of time and decided to come out a little bit later so the sun is

pretty high in the sky and it is already warming up rather nicely and the breeze there have been

times when I've been walking in the morning and the breeze actually makes things feel much colder

than the temperature.

This morning, the breeze feels good.

It gets humid here in South Carolina.

I'm not complaining.

I grew up in Maryland, actually came to appreciate and love heat and even the humidity.

Here in South Carolina, in Myrtle Beach, I think the humidity here in South Carolina in Myrtle Beach I think the

humidity gets ratcheted up a few degrees certainly the intensity of the sun does

and so so when it gets hot and sticky it's really hot and sticky anyhow

even even here in early May, you can feel that humidity.

So I want to talk about something that, a benefit actually, of walking that I don't think I've mentioned.

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