Well, I've been struggling with motivation lately, and today I'm going to talk about two of the things that have helped me get moving and keep moving.

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 to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've

been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now

and would love to have you join me for the next 10

minutes. Yeah, motivation has been a little bit harder for me of late. I'll explain specifically

what's happening in a moment, but first, kind of a big picture thing. I think for most of us when we struggle to to get

out the door and to take that walk to keep that fitness promised to add another link to the

fitness chain motivation usually gets knocked around a bit by one of four reasons or a combination.

We are too tired.

Our schedule is too crowded.

We're too busy.

The weather is too challenging or the results we want feel too elusive.

And we wonder, is this working?

And is this worth it?

This is our second summer in South Carolina.

We live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a couple of miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

It just feels way more humid, stickier than I've ever experienced, certainly in Maryland, and even last year.

So lately I've been asking folks in our community that we see if this is normal.

People who have lived here longer than us.

Does it normally feel this hot and sticky?

And everyone I've asked who has lived here for a while has has said, no, this is, this is really unusual.

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