Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise,

which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

I think it's going to be a beautiful sunrise.

I've got clear skies as I stop and look up.

I can see stars. I am out super early today.

It is dark and at some point that sun will come up and I'll be able to enjoy the sunrise,

but I don't think it's going to be during our 10-minute walk today.

So is this 10-minute walk adding another link to your growing fitness chain?

Did you make a fitness promise to walk for 10 minutes every single day?

And then every day that you keep that fitness promise, you add another link to that fitness chain.

And the value of that fitness chain is really great when you're just getting started,

because the goal when you're just getting started is simply to establish a fitness habit,

build this routine, get used to doing a fitness activity every single day.

The real goal is not to change something about your life, to lose weight, to improve your health.

I mean, that's going to happen. By the way, I'm not a doctor.

I'm not a licensed personal trainer.

This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only.

Research indicates that there is great value in pursuing fitness,

in exercise, that weight management is one of the benefits. Improved health metrics is another possible benefit.

Long term, there's lowering the risk of certain diseases and early death. All of that is good

and all of that is worth pursuing, but at the very beginning, out of the shoot, at the starting gate, the very beginning out of the shoot at the starting gate the

very beginning the goal is simply to create a habit to get used to doing this every

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