Sometimes things don't go according to plan.

Sometimes we see what others are doing, how others are walking for fitness, and we would like to do the same thing,

but our circumstances, well, they don't necessarily allow for that to happen.

Got an email this week from Margaret, and I love this. She writes, Good Morning. I'm a new listener,

and I'm loving your podcast. I have forwarded it to three friends who need a calming voice in their lives.

I volunteer with the Humane Society and I have a difficult reactive Jack Russell Pitmix

and because of her behavior towards cars and neighbors, I have to do boring laps in my backyard.

Your calming voice has lowered my frustration and eliminated the boredom.

Thank you.

I've listened to the Pivot Podcast, and now I pivot to squats and lungers whenever the dog, she, decides to take a breather or a long roll in the grass. I learn something every day.

Margaret. Margaret, thank you for your email. How many of us have been in a situation

similar to Margaret's? Maybe not those exact circumstances, but because of our circumstances, we can't walk quite the way that we would like to.

I get the impression, Margaret didn't say it, but I get the impression that she would prefer to be out

in the neighborhood walking with her dog. But because of her dog's behavior, that's really not a good

option. So Margaret has decided to use what she has,

which is her backyard, recognizing that this really isn't the most fun. This really isn't what I would

prefer to be doing, but it's what I got. It's what I got. And so I'm going to make the best of it.

And so she discovered the podcast.

Thank you, Margaret, for your very kind words about walking his fitness.

She listens as she does laps in her backyard.

And then to supersize it, when her dog decides to stop moving, to take a long roll in the grass,

Margaret adds some lunges and squats into the fitness mix.

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