Are you up for a really big goal?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation

to help you reach that fitness promise you made to 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.

The purpose of this podcast is to help you and others with a little extra motivation to take a daily walk.

There is just so much research about the value of exercise, the value of fitness,

and the value of walking for fitness.

For many, this 10-minute walk is the beginning of a brand-new fitness journey because motivation to move, to exercise, even to walk consistently,

sometimes it's not there. You think I'm going to get moving, I'm going to get healthier, I'm going to begin pursuing exercise,

and you learn that walking is a valuable fitness activity, and that if you commit to walking long-term,

you lower the risk of all kinds of bad health outcomes, including heart disease, certain types

of cancer, diabetes, depression, cognitive decline. A walk today really is an

investment in your future self. At some point, years down the road, maybe even decades down the road, you'll be so grateful to your

current self for investing the time and the energy in fitness. You'll be reaping those rewards.

But this daily walk has benefits beyond the future benefits.

It's got a bunch of right now benefits.

Again, research back that we take a 10-minute walk and you're going to change your mood.

You're going to think better. You're going to be more creative. And I think

it even changes the way that you think about yourself. It is so hard to set a goal, to make a

commitment, to make a promise to yourself and to keep it.

And if you're anything like me, your history is just littered with all kinds of things that I said I was going to do.

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