I bet you didn't know you were doing this with your daily walks.

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 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. So good news, at least for me.

The rain finally stopped yesterday afternoon.

The system moved on and even though I'm walking well before sunrise,

I can see clear skies.

We've got a foolish moon hanging in the sky, and the forecast is promising,

promising a full day of sunshine. So life is good. I try not to over-mentioned this, but I do

mention it from time to time. So if you've been listening for a while, you're aware that

I've got retirement on my radar screen. It's still years away, but those years are getting

fewer and fewer. And everything that I've heard, that I've read from experts, from people who are in retirement, is that if you want a

successful retirement, one of the best things you can do is to plan ahead. And to think of

retirement as a three-legged stool, there's health. You want to be in good health in retirement.

It's one of the big reasons why I'm pursuing fitness,

why I take this daily walk, and the other fitness activities I do.

I want to age well, and of course, aging well includes having health freedom in retirement.

You want to focus on your purpose.

What are you going to do once you leave work?

One of the most impactful things that I heard was someone who was talking about retirement,

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