Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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, averaging 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now, and I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. So the last two

mornings, I've gotten wet for either, I didn't check my weather at before I left. That happened

yesterday. I didn't even think to check.

The day before, all I looked at was the temperature and the wind and paid no attention to whether rain was in the area.

And both yesterday and the day before I got wet today, I double checked and I think I am good.

I've got a mild morning. Temperatures right around 57 and not only is there no rain. Actually,

there are some thick clouds, but they're moving away.

And I am walking towards what looks to be a beautiful sunrise and even have, and I'm not a

meteorologist so I don't know what causes this, but what I call ground fog. It's just really very pretty.

So have you ever felt like this walk that you take, that exercise that you do is self-centered, selfish even, taking time away from others,

and you're just focused on yourself and you wonder,

you know, should I really be doing this?

Not only is it not selfish, it may be one of the most others focused thing that you could be doing.

Talk about that in just a moment.

This episode is sponsored by the Stepfit Plan.

This is a guide that will help you transition.

You're walking from merely functional, that walking that we do every day that we don't think about, whether

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