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

Let's go for a walk.

If you're a long-time listener, you're going to hear me try something new in just a few

minutes, something that I've never tried before during the podcast.

If you're a brand new listener, welcome. It is good to have you,

just to let you know that every episode of Walking is Fitness is recorded while I'm out on a walk,

and oftentimes you'll hear ambient noise, what's happening around me. It's early in the morning.

I've got a sunrise off to the east.

I'm in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I live two miles from the ocean. In fact, off in the

distance from where I am right now, I can see some of the beachfront hotels. So every episode

is recorded while I'm out walking.

And if you are just getting started, if you've just discovered the podcast and you've just made the decision to start walking for exercise, for fitness, I want to let you know up front that you're doing a hard thing. And I say that not to be discouraging, but actually

as an encouragement, because if you're like the rest of us, me included, at some point sooner

rather than later, you're going to hit those days where you just don't feel like it. And you start

negotiating with yourself. And then you might have another thought that,

why is this so hard? All I'm doing is walking. Well, it's hard because keeping our commitments

to ourselves, to pursue fitness, to building a habit is a hard, hard thing. And there are a couple of

things that you can do to make it a little bit

easier. You can listen to this podcast every day. You can tap, follow an Apple or Spotify, whatever

app you are using. And that'll download each episode. It'll be waiting for you so you won't

have to search for it and try to remember how you found the episodes of the podcast.

And Apple will also send you a notification, which becomes not only an invitation to take a walk,

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