What is the link between classical music and walking?

And more importantly, what does any of this have to do with you?

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. 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. Some heavy rain last night and overnight, and maybe you can hear I'm walking in a

grassy area, which has some puddles and some standing water, and I've got my all-weather

shoes on because I anticipated that it would be a wet walk this morning and sure

enough it is. Ran across some interesting information about three classical music composers.

And I'm not a classical music guy. I'm more a classic rock guy, But all three I've heard of. Two, I even know a little bit

of their music. And all three of these guys were passionate about walking. They walked every day.

So, Chikovsky, his best known piece, and actually my favorite classical music

piece, is the Nutcracker Suite. It's not entirely sure what it was about that music that grabbed

my attention. I suspect, although I'm not sure. my grandparents were professional puppeteers and they used

the dance of the sugar plum fairy, which is part of the Nutcracker Suite, written by Chikovsky,

as their theme music. So I became familiar with that piece as a child, and maybe that just

led to a love of the entire work of the Nutcracker Suite,

bought an album and listened to it over and over and over and over again.

I don't think I still have it.

It might be up in the attic.

Anyhow, Chikovsky would walk for 45 minutes in the morning,

and then in the afternoon would take a two-hour walk every day,

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