So which is a better option? Taking an app or taking a walk? 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 and 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. Recently, I can't remember whether it was a Saturday or a Sunday.

It was in the afternoon.

And I was feeling sluggish, tired.

And I was actually conflicted.

Should I take a walk or should I take a nap?

If you've been listening for a while, you know that I have quite a history of walking.

Started intentional fitness walking in 2013, averaging somewhere around 20,000 steps a day since then.

I know how to take a walk.

What you may not know is that I have equal skill and experience when it comes to taking a nap.

This is not like just a kind of one-off thing.

I did morning radio for years.

That alarm would go off at 3.30 in the morning. And I got pretty good

about coming home from work because I started early, so I ended on lunchtime, would go home and

often would take a nap in the middle of the afternoon. And sometimes that nap could last as long as

90 minutes.

Also got pretty good at taking what I guess is considered a power nap,

one of those little short 20-minute naps that you wake up and you feel refreshed.

So I got really, really good at taking naps.

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