Do you find that keeping your fitness promise is actually a little bit harder on the weekends?

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 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. Recently got an email from another Dave

and towards the end of the email he mentioned almost as in passing

he mentioned that weekends were actually harder for him

to keep his fitness promise to get his steps to take an intentional fitness walk.

The weekends were harder.

And as soon as I read that, it was like, oh yeah, I know exactly what that's about.

Have you ever experienced that?

Have you ever felt that way?

Maybe you're feeling that way now.

So when I did the 20K one year step challenge, and if you're a brand

new listener, this was an entire year, 365 days, started on September 1st, 2018, wrapped up August 31st,

2019. I committed to walking 20,000 steps every day,

and to hold myself accountable, I posted about it every day on Facebook and Instagram.

I had a really great routine

for reaching those steps Monday through Friday.

It was built around my work schedule.

At the time, I was part of a morning show,

and I would get up early,

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