Today I want to talk about one of the most interesting pieces of psychology surrounding exercise.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking is fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast that provides you with a little added motivation to get out, take the walk, and hopefully even more importantly, to keep going. Today's 10-minute walk starts

right after this. Before I put my pop psychologist hat on a couple of updates. At the

moment it is not raining. We've had this will be day number three of clouds, cool temperatures, and rain in the forecast.

The last two mornings it's been raining while I've been recording.

For the moment, it's cloudy, it is cool, it kind of feels raw, but there is no rain. However, we are expected to get

some rain later today. That's update number one. Thanks for asking. Update number two,

the coyotes. We have not heard or seen any coyotes since we heard that hideous yet fascinating

couple of minutes of the coyotes howling their brains out. I'm walking past a wooded area

right now and there could be coyotes in there, but I'm prepared.

One of the things that scares coyotes away is loud noise.

I think they're just running scared right now.

Alright, that's not what this episode is about.

In fact, what I thought this episode was going to be about actually has morphed into something else.

So this started initially because of a comment from Eric to one of the walking of fitness

YouTube videos Eric writes hi Dave one of your viewers commented a while back to

stretch before and after walking and that was a game changer for me so I was

going and I'm going to do an episode about the benefits of stretching.

And here they are.

By the way, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer.

This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only.

So the physical benefits of stretching, number one, increases flexibility

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