Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. I am out pre-sunrise. Looks like a partly,

partly cloudy day, or at least a partly cloudy morning.

How's it going?

Did you start walking for fitness on January 1st or 2nd?

Just wondering how it's going, how you're feeling, how are you feeling physically,

how are you feeling emotionally? Fitness is hard. For most of us it's not the 10-minute walk that's hard,

although depending on what your level of activity is before you begin, you might be feeling,

feeling this walk. It's usually not the physical activity that starts feeling hard.

It's the commitment to getting out and doing this every day, especially on days that you don't feel like.

Maybe the weather is like, I don't want to go out in that.

Or your schedule is crammed and you're trying to figure out where you're going to get this walk in.

Or maybe you're just tired.

It's tired.

Just don't feel like it.

And that's when this walk becomes super hard.

This commitment to fitness becomes a challenge. We don't usually feel that on day one or day two,

but after you get into it a few days, it's like, okay, the excitement isn't quite there that it was on

day one. And you get a couple of weeks in in and sometimes it just feels like you're grinding

it out. We don't want that. We don't want this to be a grind. We want this to actually start to be

fun, which is why the fitness promise, I recommend the fitness promise to start. Be really small, 10 minutes.

For some, even smaller than that, for some, it might be going to walk to the mailbox and back.

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