Hi friends, ready to do this thing. This 10 minute walk. Yeah, it is very windy where I am,

and I'll talk about that in just a moment. Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action

as we take a walk together for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness.

This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit Plan.

This is a one-year guide to help you transition your walking from merely functional to fitness.

Functional walking is that type of walking we do every day that we don't even think about.

It's the walking we do through the grocery about. It's the walking we do through

the grocery store. It's the walking we do as we're putting laundry away. It's the walking we do as

we're running around the neighborhood picking up trash that got blown over by the wind on

trash day.

And the trash cans open up in the trash.

It's now scattering about the neighborhood.

And that actually could be fitness walking because you start to run after the trash and you get your heart rate up.

I speak from experience 10 minutes ago.

Anyhow, the stepfit plan will help you transition from functional walking to fitness walking.

Fitness walking takes intentionality. It takes some intensity and it takes action. First thing you need to do.

First thing, number one, is to create a fitness habit, and that takes longer.

Oh my! I wonder how many trash cans got knocked over by that one.

Establishing a habit takes longer than you probably realize we've heard 30 days for a habit.

No, research actually indicates on average, 66 days to establish a habit and for some of us even longer than that.

So, priority number one is establishing that fitness habit and the

stepfit plan will help you to do that and to stay with it so that habit then becomes fitness

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