One of the great benefits of walking is it is low cost exercise.

Today I'm going to take a little bit of a different look at walking and cost.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. It is a daily 10-minute podcast designed to help you find a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and to keep going, even on those days when you don't feel like it. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

Good morning, how are you? I'm well.

I'm walking right beside a fairly decent sized field to my right, And that's a guy with a dog.

And I don't know if you could hear the bell.

It's like a little cowbell.

And I think he's just finishing up.

I think I've seen him before.

He brings his dog into this field and then just lets the dog run. And maybe the cowbell is a signal to the dog.

Time to go back to the truck, which is exactly what they are doing now, getting in the truck.

One of the great benefits of walking as a fitness activity is it doesn't cost much. You don't need to belong to a gym.

You don't need fancy equipment.

Now you do need good shoes.

And if you walk a lot, you need to replace those shoes a lot. It's anywhere between 3 and 500 miles before the support mechanism of the shoe has broken down that it's no longer providing the support that you really need.

So there is an expense on the shoes.

But other than that, you really don't need to spend a whole lot of money.

Today, though, I want to flip the script and talk about things that I have spent money on and will continue to spend money on that actually make walking even more enjoyable.

To be clear, you don't need these things. I don't need these things, but I enjoy these accessories and they do make walking more

enjoyable and in some cases more efficient. And I'm going to rank these. These are five

five accessories that I personally enjoy, that I use pretty regularly, and I'm

going to rank them from number five to number one.

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