Today we're starting with an indoor voice, but not necessarily for the most obvious reason.

Welcome to Walking as 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. I still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

I'm going to be walking in just a moment, and I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is, as I'm looking at the clock, I'm standing in my home office here in my house in Myrtle Beach.

It is 4.41 a.m. And I'm using my indoor voice because

on the other side of the house is my wife Ava. She's asleep and I don't want to wake her up.

Today's episode is inspired by a post that I saw from a woman named Sherry. This was on the

Start Today Facebook group. Sherry posted that she had 10,000 steps and she got all 10,000 before

6 a.m.

So today, I want to do an episode about the advantages of super early morning walks, super early morning fitness.

And I'm going to leave the house now.

So let's begin our walk.

Unlock the door.

And out the front.

And I'm going to use the indoor voice for just a little bit longer because as I'm leaving the neighborhood,

it's a quiet neighborhood, as you can probably hear, and we're not

used to people walking through the neighborhood at 4.40 in the morning talking to themselves.

So I really don't want to startle anyone. I'll be leaving the neighborhood and soon I'll be walking along the main road or a main road.

So we may have some traffic as we walk and talk today.

Three advantages to walking really early in the morning.

I'm not talking about you get up at your normal time, unless of course your normal time is super early.

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