Why is it so hard to get restarted?

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 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 I would love to have

you join me for the next 10 minutes. It is right around sunrise here in South Carolina. The

temperature is cool, not cold. Skies are clear. It's on the

breezy side today, so I've decided to walk along that wooded trail that's near my home.

The nice thing about this, one of the nice things, it's beautiful, but also it acts as a bit of a buffer against the wind if I don't want to be cold or I don't want a lot of wind noise in the podcast.

Hope where you're walking today is equally as enjoyable and I really appreciate you joining me.

I was having coffee outside at a local coffee shop about a mile from our home the other day

when our next door neighbor, her daughter and her granddaughter walked up.

The daughter and the granddaughter went into the coffee shop to get some coffee.

My neighbor not a huge coffee fan. In fact, she said she doesn't

drink coffee at all. She enjoys tea. She sat down at the table and we were chatting maybe five,

10 minutes. She asked if I had walked to the coffee shop. I said I did. I guess her and Ava, my wife, had had a conversation recently,

and Carol said, so yeah, Ava tells me you walk seven to ten miles every day, which is, I guess,

what it works out too. I don't really think of it in terms of miles. I said, yeah, I love, love walking.

And then Carol told me that she used to walk 10,000 steps a day, started, I guess, during the

pandemic. And things surrounding the pandemic lessened and life returned to normal and she stopped walking.

And then she said to me, but I need to get back to that.

I need to get back to that.

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