Walking while on vacation. Let's talk about it. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of

action providing a little extra of motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to

yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love

to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. As you can probably tell,

and at the beach, it is just past sunrise. I'm staring at the beach. It is just past sunrise. I'm staring at the newly risen sun. It is a beautiful morning.

Just enough clouds in the sky to make the sunrise, to give the sunrise a little drama.

I love walking on the beach.

Probably my favorite place to walk.

For years, Ava and I would vacation at the Outer Banks,

and just about every morning I would get up early because that's what I do, get up early, and go for a long walk on the beach.

And I was doing that even before walking was my exercise before I considered walking as an intentional fitness activity.

And you know, the thing is, walking is one of the, in fact, I'll take one of out of what I'm about to say. In my opinion, walking is the best vacation-friendly exercise.

It travels so well.

But a lot of times when you're on vacation, you really want to disconnect from the normal day-to-day activities, including exercise.

When I'm on vacation, I want to disconnect.

But I love walking so much.

I don't even think about it as,

I'm going to go get my exercise now.

I go down to the beach and get my exercise.

It's just something I love doing.

And I hope that you love it as much as I do and that if you're on vacation this summer,

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