Today, the dirty little secret about exercise and what I've learned to do about it.

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 to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So day two of this weather pattern, just like yesterday, there's a threat of rain

this morning and just like yesterday I've got an umbrella in my back pocket in case

that threat becomes real. Before we jump into today's topic, this is one where I need to make certain that you understand

I'm not a doctor.

I'm not a licensed personal trainer.

We're going to be talking about walking as a fitness activity as exercise, and I'm going to be

talking about increasing the intensity of what I do to raise my heart rate.

And I don't want you to take this as a specific recommendation for you or advice for you.

I'm sharing my story and to help you understand a bigger picture about

exercise and before you increase the intensity of anything you do make certain

with your doctor, with your personal trainer, with someone who is an expert who knows your situation, make sure

that this is good for you or not. So the dirty little secret about exercise is that as your

fitness capacity grows, you actually have to do more, as opposed to less. My fitness capacity

has grown. I get to do less. I get to enjoy and reap these benefits. Now, you actually

have to do more. And this was really, really evident when I first started pursuing fitness.

Started with running from one mailbox to the next.

Basically the length of a yard.

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