Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I was dealing with a frustrating issue yesterday, probably late morning.

It was getting close to lunchtime, but I was totally caught up in the issue. It involves several back and

forth email, and I was totally, totally focused on what was happening, trying to figure it out,

how's the best way to handle this. And I was feeling some frustration. I was getting frustrated.

And I walked out of my home office and Ava was in the dining room and she said, hey, are you interested in a walk?

And literally in that moment, it was like, oh right, a walk would be good right now. Yes. Yes, Eva, I am interested in a walk.

Let's go. And it was great. It was perfect. It was perfect to leave the office, leave the situation,

reframe my mind. Now I will also say honestly that as we were walking, at least in the beginning of the walk, I was having a little more problem focusing on

Ava and what she was talking about. I kept drifting back to the issue.

Gratefully, it didn't take too long for me to put that in the rearview mirror.

And by the time we returned back to the house, I guess we walked maybe a mile, maybe a mile and a half.

By the time we returned back to the house and I sat back down at my computer, I was in a completely different frame of mind.

It's one of the beautiful things about walking as a fitness activity.

In fact, you can even take fitness activity, remove that from

the conversation. It's just a beautiful thing about walking, whether you're using it as exercise or not.

So last Saturday, I went for a walk that was probably about three miles. I actually I don't I

didn't measure how far I was going didn't count the steps it was just it was a walk

for a walk's sake and it was not exercise exercise. It was not a fitness activity. And I say that based on

the recommendations and what the experts say that for walking to rise to the level of exercise,

it needs to be at a moderate pace. And typically that's starting around three miles an hour.

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