Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

If you are brand new to this podcast, brand new to the idea of walking as a fitness activity,

adding walking, looking at walking as a fitness activity, I'm looking at walking as exercise.

You're exploring, well, what do I do? What do I do every day? What should my goal be?

Today I want to talk to you and I want to talk about five options, five possible goals,

and then I want to give you my recommendation. It's actually what I do. So here's number one,

10 minutes, 10 minutes every day, which is the length of this podcast.

And there are some great reasons why a 10-minute walk every day is a good goal.

Number one, it builds the habit.

It's a great goal to build the exercise habit because that really is your highest priority

right now is to build the habit of fitness, to build the habit of exercise. Building habits

is very, very hard. Breaking them is very easy. Habits take a lot longer to build. I think then we

recognize. Research indicates it takes about 66 days on average to build a habit. Some of us can do it in less time. Some of us need more time, but 66 days is the average time it takes to build a habit, so it takes longer than we think,

because I think we have this belief that it's 30 days.

30 days and you've got a new habit.

For most of us, that's really not going to be the case.

So a 10-minute walk every day, setting the goal of walking 10 minutes,

is a great way to get started, a great way to build that habit.

Another thing about a 10 minute walk is it will change your mood.

If you're having a bad day, if you're frustrated, if you're angry, you go out and take a

walk, a 10 minute walk, and it's going to change your mood. And I we know this intuitively you know how often do we have a stretch during our day where things are not going well

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