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

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk. Good to be back in Myrtle Beach after some time in the D.C. area, National Harbor, which is across the Potomac River from D.C. and then some time in Washington, D.C.

And while I love the energy of walking in a city, it's actually one of my favorite ways to walk.

It's what I call urban exploring. There's also something really, really nice about a quiet walk back home.

And today I'm walking through the wooded trail. It's actually not quite as early as I usually

walk. I can see the sunrise, early daylight, off to the east.

And the bugs are providing a chorus as I walk.

I don't know if you can hear that, but it's nice to be back home.

So this week's Walking as Fitness YouTube video was also filmed in D.C. while I was walking along the national mall.

And it was really outside my comfort zone. And the reality is when we pursue fitness, for most of us, it is doing something that is outside our comfort zone.

It's physically uncomfortable, particularly at the start.

And even if you've been walking for a while, every now and then, it's probably good to push the intensity, to go a little bit faster, to go a little bit longer.

And that can be physically uncomfortable.

That's outside our comfort zone.

And so there's that.

And pursuing fitness can also be emotionally uncomfortable.

We're doing something that's new, that's different, and maybe we're doing it and there are other people around and that feels awkward or wondering whether this is

going to work or perhaps we have a history of it not working and so we feel that

and so that's uncomfortable so pursuing fitness can very much be something

that is outside our comfort zone.

And I've come to realize the older I get that comfort zones are really comfortable.

But it's good from time to time to get outside my comfort zone.

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