What happens when there's an injury and you have to break your fitness chain?

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.

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. Got an email recently from a listener named Sheila in Wisconsin.

Sheila had put together a fitness chain of 200 days walking 10,000 steps a day.

Congratulations, Sheila.

That is, that's amazing.

200 links in the fitness chain, each link representing promise kept. I'm going to walk 10,000, at least 10,000 steps today. And Sheila did it. 200 days,

200 days. She didn't say, but I imagine that some of those 200 links represented days that were really pretty easy.

With blue sky and sunshine and the temperature just the way Sheila likes it.

And she was feeling energetic and just loving life and

loving walking and just loving this fitness promise and I'm sure some of the

links represented days just like that but I'm also sure that quite a few of

those links represented days that were not easy days days that were hard, days where the weather

was anything but enjoyable, days when Sheila probably didn't have a lot of energy, days

when maybe she wasn't loving this fitness promise that she made to walk 10,000 steps. Days when she might have thought,

why did I do this? What was the purpose behind this? But she did it anyhow. That's the beauty

of a fitness chain. You're doing a hard thing. It's not just the 10,000 steps. It's the commitment. It's the fortitude. It's the inner strength. It's the grit to get out and do what you say you're going to do. Keeping your promise.

And I'm sure quite a few of the links in that 200 link chain represented some really hard days.

Sheila was doing a hard thing.

200 days.

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