Today's 10-minute walk is helping you and me remain fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

If you are listening to this on Christmas Day, you are doing a hard thing supersized.

There's something about keeping that fitness commitment on a holiday or some sort of

special day that actually matters more than we realize in the moment.

In the moment, it's probably just annoying.

During the 20K one-year step challenge, that was the full year that I did 20,000 steps every day for a year without missing a day.

I walked 20,000 steps on Christmas Day.

And if I'm remembering correctly, because it was, let's see, six years ago now,

one of the things that I was feeling that day was annoyance.

Why did I do this?

Why did I make this commitment?

What was the point of this?

I was annoyed at myself for making that commitment. And I was a public

commitment. And I didn't want to post on December 26 that, well, you know, I said I was going to do

this every day for a year, but just kidding, just kidding.

There's something about keeping our commitment,

our fitness commitment on hard days,

annoying days that matters maybe more than you realize.

Number one, if you have a fitness chain, if you're building a chain, which is something that I recommend

as you're creating a fitness habit, make a commitment to do this for 90 straight days, that chain

becomes motivation unto itself, on days when you don't feel like it,

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