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 is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging almost 21,000 steps a day.

That's not my goal, but really it's a reflection of how much I love this fitness activity.

Yep, it sounds different again. This is part of Maryland week. I'm in

Maryland for our spring fundraiser at the radio station where I work full time. Now, I live in

South Carolina. And so I am able to work remotely, except for two times a year when I travel back to Maryland to head up our on-air fundraisers.

We do one in the spring, one in the fall, and well, here we are in the spring.

These are long days.

I'm on the air with our on-air team pretty much all day, so for about 13 hours.

So as I am recording this, it is very early in the morning.

I am inside, not outside.

I'm in the radio station.

And if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you've heard me from time to time mention that part of my routine when I lived

in Maryland and when I was doing the morning show and working here at the radio station five days

a week, I would get here very early in the morning and I would go upstairs at where our sales offices are and I can actually walk

laps around the cubicles and while I would do that I would be warming up my voice and I do that

by singing which I'm not going to do right now because I'm not a singer, but it is a really good

way to get your voice ready for an on-air shift. Also, because I think better and I'm more

creative when I'm moving, this walking would allow me to think through the day. Also think through

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