Is Your Goal Still Small Enough?

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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During today's cold and windy ten-minute walk, with Quitter's Day just ahead, Dave asks the question again, "Is your goal small enough?"

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0:00.0	All right, friends. Are you ready? You ready for our 10-minute walk together? Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness.
0:21.8	This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit Plan, a guide to help you transition your walking from
0:27.4	merely functional to fitness. All walking is beneficial. The CDC, the experts have said even
0:34.9	light activity, you know, that walking we do, that movement we do
0:38.2	without even thinking about it does have benefits, but the real long-term health benefits,
0:43.6	according to the experts, comes when we are undergoing at least moderate level activity.
0:51.8	And walking briskly counts as moderate level activity to do that you need to be
0:58.1	intentional obviously you need some intensity and you really need a plan of action to help you
1:04.9	transition that walking from functional to fitness the step fit plan is such a plan. It is effective. It is free and it is yours. Go to
1:17.8	walking is fitness.com. Check out the resource page. You can also click the link in the show
1:23.9	notes for today's episode. Well, hi, I'm Dave, and it is a cold, cold day in South Carolina.
1:35.2	And since I started doing this podcast, probably, if not the coldest day, certainly one of the two or three coldest that I've been out walking in, the temperature hovering around freezing and the wind, as you can tell, is active.
1:56.0	And so that's driving the wind chill to below freezing. And of course, I don't want to complain.
2:02.4	I don't want to whine because I think of David, a listener in Canada,
2:09.3	who recently told me about his walks when the temperature is 16 and the wind chill is one.
2:17.4	Yeah, David's got me beat by far. But for me and what I'm
2:22.1	used to, at least here in South Carolina, it is a cold day. So we've been talking or I've been
2:29.3	talking about quitters day coming up this Wednesday, January 19th.
2:36.5	And if you've missed the last couple of days, Strava, which is a personal fitness app,
2:42.7	they have tons of data, and they have determined that most people who quit their New Year's resolutions, those fitness goals, they started on January 1st.
2:54.6	Most people who quit will have done so by January 19th.
2:58.6	And so they have dubbed the 19th Quidders Day.
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