How would you like to double the impact of your walking?

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 and 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.

One of the powerful benefits of using walking as a fitness activity is the opportunity to focus on something else.

Walking is not the only fitness activity that I use.

I also do some strength training.

I have some weights in my garage and several times a week.

We'll head out there and do some weightlifting strength

training i do some high intensity interval training several times a week it's kind of like running

in place just something for five 10 minutes to get my heart rate up i I also have a bike and I love cycling. And while the

primary focus of my cycling, the primary reason for hopping on my bike isn't fitness related,

it's more because I just love it. It's a pleasure ride.

There certainly are fitness benefits to being able to do that.

And I've learned with each one of these activities that while I'm able to think about other things,

to be able to focus, which is the key word, to be able to focus on something else while I'm doing this fitness activity. Walking is really uniquely alone in allowing

me to focus on something other than what I'm doing. Last month, Julia became a supporter of the podcast, and she left a note,

and she said something in this note that grabbed my attention.

And I almost, when I was reading it on one of the episodes,

I almost stopped and kind of camped on this one line.

But I thought, no, I think I'll just circle back to that at some point down the road,

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