Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

The other night, Ava and I were getting ready to take our evening walk.

We take a couple of walks, usually a couple of walks every day.

We've got one at some point in the afternoon, depending on my work schedule, depending on her schedule.

And then typically we have a walk that we take after dinner.

The other night, we were getting ready to take that second walk.

And it always begins with either me or her asking, so want to take a walk?

I mean, even though we do it every time, and the answer is always yes,

one of us still asks, and I think I asked this time. I said, want to go for a walk?

She said, yeah, but just the triangle this time. And I've mentioned before that we have these different geometric shapes that we assign to the different routes that we use. And the triangle is essentially

around our neighborhood, the perimeter of our neighborhood. And it's one of the shorter walks that we

take in the evening. She said, I'm really, really tired. And as we were walking, Ava was getting, I guess you call it the second wind.

The walk was energizing her. And I've done an episode or two about this. If you are feeling really

tired, which is better, take a nap or take a walk.

And there's actually research pointing to take a walk.

It will give you energy.

And we lived that the other night as we took our after dinner walk.

I have a good friend who loves setting monthly goals, and she's motivated by the first of every month.

I mean, there's just something about the first day of the month. It's like a clean slate.

It's an empty sheet of paper. What am I going to do this month? What am I going to accomplish this month?

If you've been listening to this podcast, maybe you've been contemplating, beginning, pursuing fitness,

beginning, walking consistently, and you've been thinking about it, and maybe you're

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