Why did President Truman walk every morning?

And more importantly, what can you and I learn from this?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise

you made to yourself because that is a hard thing to do. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for

fitness since 2013 averaging just under 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would

love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

This may be the warmest morning that I've encountered since starting this podcast.

70 degrees, the sun has not yet risen.

It is expected to reach 80 today in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

It's also expected that we're going to get some thunderstorms.

In fact, right now, the clouds to the south even have a little bit of a threatening look to them.

I don't think I'm supposed to get rained on before I finish up. That rain's not supposed

to arrive until later this afternoon. Off to the north, the sky is fairly clear. The winds are calm.

In other words, it is a beautiful morning for a walk, and I hope where you are, it is nice as well.

When Harry Truman was in the military, they taught him to walk at a very brisk pace,

120 steps a minute.

And by my calculation, that's about three and a half miles an hour.

So that's a pretty fast walking pace.

And after Harry left the military, he continued the practice of walking every day.

When he was a judge, when he was a United States senator,

when he was the vice president of the United States,

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