I'm going to address the obvious irony in yesterday's episode.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with

added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and more importantly, I believe, to keep moving forward.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. In case you're

wondering it is warmer, 28 degrees but the wind is barely moving. So no wind chill

this morning. Actually supposedly it feels like 33. So we're getting a little bit of a bump from the sunshine.

The sky is crystal clear, the sun is shining, and later this afternoon, it is going to feel noticeably warmer than it did yesterday.

Speaking of yesterday, I am aware of the obvious irony in what I was saying, talking about

three benefits of walking in cold weather, benefit number one, it can change the way you

think about yourself because you're doing a hard thing.

Getting out, walking in the cold weather is not easy.

And that was spoken by someone who moved 500 miles south to get away from cold weather.

The irony was not lost on me. south to get away from cold weather.

The irony was not lost on me, but that doesn't change the reality that walking in cold weather is not easy. Even if it's something you're used to doing and your reaction is, eh, do it all the time, that you have leaned into it

and made a part of your regular routine and you think nothing of it only increases the respect

that I have for you.

So today I want to talk about sleep, the impact of walking on sleep, but I also want to go beyond

that. So this walk that you're taking that I'm taking, based on research, does have an impact

on our sleep. There is research that indicates, this was a 2019 study in the journal Sleep.

Postmenopausal women who do light to moderate intensity physical activity sleep better at night than those who are sedentary.

There was another study that found healthy adults, and these were young adults, who walked

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