Have you ever tried building a walking fitness chain?

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking is fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and more importantly, I believe, to keep going.

That's the hard part to keep going. If you're doing that, you're doing a hard thing.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. Have you ever built a fitness chain? And what I mean by

that is you make a commitment, you make a promise to, and we'll say in

this case, take a walk, a daily walk, and the goal is to create a chain of days.

So every day you take the walk, you add a link to the chain. And as that chain

grows, it provides some motivation to keep going. Today I want to talk about the value of building a fitness chain.

And before I dive into the reasons why I think this is a good thing, I also want to say,

I believe it's important to put an end date on your fitness chain. Because I've done this before and I did not put an end date on your fitness chain because I've done this before and I did not put an

end date on it and after a while for me it may not be the same for you but for me the fitness

chain actually became a burden.

It's like, I've built this and I don't want it to end, but I needed a break. And so I, because of that experience, I've revised my thinking, and I think fitness chains can be incredibly value,

but I think they're really

valuable if there's an end date. So at the beginning, I'm going to do this for 90 days, or I'm

going to do this for a year. I don't know that I would recommend going past a year. My fitness

chain actually was two and a half years, and that was like it's a little too long and it was hard it was

hard to make the decision to end it because it's like this is what I felt but it needed it needed to

end because instead of the fitness chain serving me I was was serving the fitness chain, and that really

wasn't a good place to be.

Anyhow, by the way, if you're interested, there is a 90-day fitness chain tracker that I've

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