All right. Are you ready to walk? Ready for our 10-minute walk together. Welcome to walking

is fitness. I'm Dave. This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding

each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness.

This episode is sponsored by the StepFit Plan.

This is a guide that will help you transition your walking from merely functional to fitness.

If you are brand new to this podcast, I've mentioned before, perhaps you've missed it, because you're brand

new, that the key to getting fitness to stick, and we've all, at least I, have in the past,

attempted a new fitness journey, a new exercise plan, only to see it fail

within a couple of weeks, I think once I lasted several months and then adios.

The key is first establishing a fitness habit.

And it's not as easy as it sounds.

The Stepfit plan will walk you through the entire process.

It is effective.

It is free and it is yours by going to walking is fitness.com the resource page.

There's also a link in the show notes for today's episode. So this week,

talking about the five benefits of walking for fitness on Monday, talked about probably the most

obvious benefit of really any fitness activity, and that is health.

Health is one of those benefits that has been researched, researched, and research.

There's plenty of data.

And for me, even with all the data indicating that I am lowering my risk of dying early for certain types of

diseases and illnesses, for me the real benefit is actually what I call health freedom.

It's not simply not getting sick, but it's all of the stuff that goes with that, the doctor's visits,

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