Are you having a hard time staying consistent with your walking?

Got an idea for you.

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 to 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. I often say that fitness is hard, that what you're

doing is a hard thing.

And while the physical act of walking, the fitness capacity is really what I'm referring to here.

It takes a while to build that up and when the fitness capacity is still low, walking can be physically taxing, can be physically tiring. But when I say fitness is hard,

that's really not what I'm referring to. It's not the physical part. The hardest part of

fitness, in my opinion, is the mental part, is staying motivated, is making a promise, a fitness promise,

and then keeping that promise every day, particularly on those days when you don't feel like it.

That's the hard part.

And you've probably had days like that, I know I have, where, all right, it's time to get after it, time to do it.

I don't feel like it.

And the hard part isn't the physical act of putting one foot in front of the other.

The hard part is getting up out of that seat and heading out the front door.

That's the hard part. It's also hard once

you do that to keep doing that, to do it every day, to do it consistently, day after day after day.

Particularly early on when you still don't have fitness momentum or even a fitness habit.

That's hard to stay with it day after day after day.

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