All right. Are you ready for our 10-minute walk together? Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding each other

accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness. This episode is sponsored by the Step

Fit Plan. When you boil it down, the number one most important thing to establishing a fitness

lifestyle, exercise that lasts.

The number one most important thing is first building a fitness habit.

Long before you see any kind of change or transformation, you need to build the habit. And oftentimes we go about that the wrong

way. We start way too big because we just want the change. We want that transformation. And we

start in a way that simply is not sustainable. The stepfit plan will help you take your walking,

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and it is yours. Go to walking is fitness.com. You can check out the resource page. There's

also a link in the show notes for this episode. Hi, I'm Dave. It is wet. You can probably

hear the rain on the umbrella. It is windy. You're going to hear that from time to time. What you're not going to hear is that it is also cold. Above freezing, but it is still cold. So William Henry Harrison, he was the ninth president of the United States.

He was only president for 30 days, shortest presidency ever in U.S. history. And the story goes

like this. If you check out most history books that have more

than simply a picture of William Henry Harrison, you'll learn that President Harrison gave an

inaugural speech that lasted almost two and a half hours.

Now, apparently that was not unusual in the 19th century to speak that long, to give speeches that long, and so he did.

This was when U.S. presidential inaugurations were in early March, not on January 20th as they are now.

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