Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, and we'll

add another link to your growing fitness chain. Happy National Walking Day. I can't believe this.

The last two years that I've been doing this on National Walking Day completely missed it.

And I said, I'm not going to miss it again. Today is a day that some will focus on the benefits of walking.

You might even see some stories in the media about how great walking is, that it is National

Walking Day,

that you are encouraged to get out and take a walk,

and you can think to yourself, been there doing that.

So I thought on this National Walking Day, 2024,

that we could talk about five ways to celebrate the day, to mark the day, to do something

today in honor of walking and your commitment to walking. How's that sound? All right, so here are five

things that you can do today on National Walking Day. Obviously, you're already taking a walk.

That's great. Number one, you can walk more. You can go longer today. You can take a second walk

later, maybe even a third walk. Fitness is hard. Pursuing fitness is hard. Making a fitness commitment is hard.

But when you boil it down, this activity that we're doing, walking, unless you're in pain,

is really a fun activity and a pleasurable activity. At least that's how I see it and have seen it

since I started. This is something that I enjoy doing. This is a get-to, not a have-to. I look for

opportunities to go for a walk. Today on National Walking Day, I mean, what better way to celebrate than simply

to walk more, to walk more than usual. So that's number one. Number two, do something different

with your walking today. And there are all kinds of ways that we could do this. We could take a different

route. If you normally go left, go right. If you normally walk at a particular pace,

maybe walk a little bit faster or vary it up. Here's one. If your route has a hill and you tend to avoid the hill, take the hill today.

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