Keeping that fitness promise you made to yourself is hard.

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

And how many people, when given the option between easy and hard,

intentionally choose hard? Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a

podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise you made to

yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000

steps a day. I'm walking right now. I would love to have you join me.

62 degrees where I am, there is a threat of rain today. In fact, I think it's more than just a threat, and I think it's more than just rain.

I think we've got some thunderstorms that are going to be bearing down on us a bit later,

but right now all is calm.

The skies are clear.

I did check the radar,

and there are some showers well off the coast of North Carolina

and moving away from us.

So a rain-free walk for now.

Should you take walk breaks while you're working?

Should you take walk breaks while you're working?

Three things.

Number one, walking increases brain power. It increases creativity. I've mentioned the study before, but I love this research out of Stanford that indicates walking increases your creativity by 66%.

And this is specifically walking, not exercise, because they found that your mind is free to focus on other things while you're walking, which is kind of a unique aspect of walking as a

physical activity, as exercise. It didn't matter whether you were walking in a beautiful park

or on a treadmill in a gray room with fluorescent lights,

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