Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

So let's go for a walk.

Can walking make you feel better?

100% is the answer to that.

Absolutely walking can make you feel better.

In fact, maybe as you're walking right now, you're feeling better

than when you started. That's not an uncommon thing. If you're brand new, though, to this

podcast and to the idea of walking for fitness, for exercise, the answer is a little more nuanced than 100% yes, absolutely.

In fact, maybe you're even in this season of exploration. You're exploring the idea of making a

commitment to walk consistently, perhaps even every day,

and you're analyzing the data, you're thinking it through because you don't want to make a commitment

and then give up. As I am prone to do.

More prone to do it earlier in my life, not quite as much now.

That's more me now, where I'm analyzing the data,

thinking this through before I make a commitment.

And so one of the things, as you've been doing your research, as you've been looking into walking as a fitness activity, as exercise,

there seems to be an awful lot of information about how walking can make you feel better.

And so today, during our 10-minute walk, I want to present both sides. I want to talk about four ways that walking can make

you feel worse, and then four ways that walking can make you feel better. All right? By the way,

I need to let you know I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for

education and entertainment purposes only.

All right. Number one. The number one way that walking can make you feel worse is if you are

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