Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

Judy posted something in the Start Today Facebook group.

She says it actually started with, and this is the focus of today's episode, totally out of my comfort zone today and then it's a longer post

she talks about how she had been going to the gym and using the elliptical machine and the weights

and getting out of her comfort zone was going to a different gym and doing some classes with other people.

And that was outside her comfort zone.

And I can totally relate to that.

I'm far more comfortable doing fitness on my own, whether it's weightlifting or some high-intensity stuff,

far more comfortable doing it solo than I am doing it as part of a class

with an instructor, and now I'm with other people, and I am very aware of how awkward I might feel,

how awkward I might look, how others are pursuing this with greater fitness capacity.

It's just, it's uncomfortable.

And so Judy, I believe, was referring to that.

But it got me thinking, as these types of posts do.

And it's the idea of comfort zone and fitness or exercise or working out whatever term you want to use and how by

definition fitness activities exercise are really outside our comfort zone

think about the physical aspect of exercise the physical aspect of exercise, the physical aspect of fitness, how it can

leave us tired, it can leave us sore. It's called delayed onset muscle soreness,

doms, and we work our muscles and then the next day it's like, oh my,

I really really gave myself a pretty good workout.

In the moment we can feel out of breath and the discomfort of that as we're pushing ourselves

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