You know, keeping that fitness promise to yourself is hard.

You're doing a hard thing right now.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013 and have

averaged almost 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. We've got a foggy, well, not we, I have a foggy situation this morning.

Temperature is cool but comfortable.

And once again, I double-checked on the whole rain thing

because twice now in the last handful of days I forgot to check.

And it started raining while I was walking, which a little embarrassing, I guess.

Hey, if you're brand new to this podcast and you are just getting started making walking a fitness activity,

and your hope, your goal is to really begin a brand new fitness journey,

exercise journey, and you want to make this stick.

You want to still be doing this a year from now.

I've got five things that you should do right now to make this really your forever fitness habit.

This episode is sponsored by the Stepfit plan.

Speaking of making this your forever fitness habit, this is a guide that will help you establish walking as a fitness activity in a way that you'll still be doing it a year

from now. It's effective, it's free, and it's yours. Go to walking is fitness.com. You can check

out the resource page. There's also a link in the show notes for today's episode.

All right, if you're brand new to walking is fitness and you're

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