How do you find the fun? 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 yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. I 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.

One of the things that I talk about over and over and over again is that for fitness

to last, you need to find the fun.

Because if you don't enjoy what you're doing, whatever fitness activity you choose, if you don't enjoy it and it's not fun, at least to some extent,

if you're like most, if you're like me, you're eventually going to find excuses to not do it instead of looking for opportunities to pursue it.

Does that make sense?

If whatever you choose for fitness, for example, for me, I'm not a fan of burpees.

And even though burpees are an incredibly effective form of exercise, I don't like doing them.

And if I make a fitness promise because, well, that's what I should be doing, I should be doing

burpees. Everybody's doing burpees. Burpees are great. Burpees are going to help me live longer.

I'll burpee my way all the way to 100 years old.

And if I make a fitness promise to do burpees every day, 10 burpees a day for 90 days,

probably by day 13, I'm going to be looking for reasons not to do it.

I'm going to start giving myself excuses.

Well, I can skip today because I did burpees the previous 10 days and I don't really need to do them today and I'll do an extra

one tomorrow or something like that. And it won't take long before I'm not doing burpees anymore.

You flip that coin around and if it's an activity that you enjoy doing that is fun like for me taking

walks walking hopping all my bike and going for an afternoon bike ride they're not have-to's

they're get-to's i'm not looking for excuses not to do those i'm looking at the weather forecast

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