Keeping that fitness promise to ourselves, it's hard.

Right now, you're doing a hard thing.

Welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013. I've averaged almost 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and I'd love to have

you join me for the next 10 minutes. As you can probably tell, a little breezy where I am here

in South Carolina. Temperature is cool and it's actually a little cooler.

I wanted to say colder, but that's probably putting on my whiny hat.

It's actually a little cooler than I expected before leaving the house. The temperature

about the same as it was this time yesterday. What I wasn't fully expecting was this breeze. So,

no worries. I'll probably just end up walking a little bit faster. Do you ever find that to be

the case when you're walking in cooler or cold weather,

your pace picks up a little bit for me? I think it keeps me warm. And maybe there's also a little

bit of just get back into the house that much faster. So, all right, do you ever, you know, we talk about fitness as having lots of health benefits.

You know, if you do what the experts recommend, you know, at least 150 minutes of moderate level physical activity a week.

You get all these benefits, lowering your risk for cardio issues, cardio disease, heart disease, stroke.

You lower your risk for certain types of cancers, diabetes.

It improves brain health and lowers the risk for some cognitive

diseases. Later on, it's great for weight management, even helps with losing weight. You know,

you hear all that, and that's all great stuff, but it all feels somewhat

abstract. You know, you're not getting that, you don't feel those benefits now. It's like,

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