Keeping that fitness promise you made to yourself is hard.

In other words, right now you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to keep that promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging just under 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes or so. I don't know if you can hear it, but the birds this morning are

pretty robust. It hasn't been this loud in quite a few mornings.

Maybe it's the temperature, 59 degrees, the wind is calm, skies are clear. It is going to be a beautiful spring day here in South Carolina, and perhaps the birds

are feeling that and joining together in a chorus of joyful song. I'm trying to be poetic,

and I don't think I'm succeeding very well.

Birds are not the only thing that we're going to be hearing today, and I suspect this will

probably be true for you as well, no matter where you are, but the sound of lawnmowers, because

isn't that a Saturday thing to do? Cutting the grass? I actually cut my lawn

yesterday. But if you've got a push mower, it's actually a pretty good workout. You get a lot of steps, even for a small yard.

You know, the bigger the yard, the more steps you get.

And because you're pushing the mower, there's some resistance, some strength training. It's real exercise, cutting your grass.

I used to absolutely love cutting the lawn.

And this goes way back to when I was a teenager.

It was the first job I had was cutting grass in the neighborhood.

I had three or four houses on our block,

and they paid me anywhere from three to five dollars to cut the grass.

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