Have you ever thought of joining a walking group?

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, 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.

So within a couple of days, I saw two articles, one in the Wall Street Journal, the second in the Baltimore Sun, about

walking groups.

I was aware that these sorts of groups existed, but I had never really spent much time diving

in, reading the details, hearing about the advantages of walking groups and the

prevalence of walking groups. And so both these articles grabbed my attention. The article in

the Wall Street Journal was about a women's walking group in Manhattan. That was the first

one I saw. And then the second article in the. That was the first one I saw.

And then the second article in the Baltimore Sun was about a walking group, primarily for older folks that was in a suburb about 45 minutes outside of Baltimore.

And I read both, found each group fascinating.

The introvert in me was like, I don't know about that.

But I was reading the quotes from different members of each group and how much they love it,

how being part of a group provides accountability.

It makes it fun. The time goes by really quick. And one of the comments that was repeated,

particularly for the group outside of Baltimore, was they didn't have to figure out where they were going.

That was somebody else's job.

And it actually made it kind of fun because each walk was a little different.

And so you just join the group and you start walking and you're talking with people and you're meeting people and the time goes by really fast and you don't have to worry about getting lost. There's also a greater feeling of

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