So today I might give you a little episode, Whiplash.

Welcome to Walking as 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 I'd love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. Yesterday's episode of walking as fitness was all about

finding the love, the enjoyment in this activity of walking.

In fact, I even posed the rhetorical question, which I've posed before and we'll probably pose again.

If you saw the headlines that there's new research indicating that all the previous research linking better health and longevity to exercise and walking was all a myth.

And this new research discovered that there are no health benefits at all to exercise.

There are no health benefits at all to walking.

Would you still keep walking? Do you love the

activity enough, even if there were no benefits, particularly health benefits, would you keep doing it?

And my recommendation for me and for you is to find the love, to find the love in fitness and particularly in walking.

So that it becomes more of a get-to than a have-to.

That even if there weren't any benefits, that you would keep doing it.

Because actually, there are benefits.

And that's what I want to talk about today.

I want to talk about some new research that links walking to better brain health.

And here's where the episode Whiplash comes in, that even if you don't love walking,

even if you don't love pursuing fitness,

I want to encourage you to keep doing it.

Even if this walk is not enjoyable,

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