Today we're going to borrow a page from the speech, the little talk that you and I get when we're sitting on an airplane, getting ready to take off.

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've been walking for fitness since

2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. Cloudy, windy, and occasionally wet.

That's the weather here in South Carolina as I'm walking this morning.

And yes, it is morning as I'm walking.

In fact, on the way to where I record the podcast, I'm on that trail in a wooded area. And I chose to walk here today, one, because I really like it.

Two, it's a bit of a buffer from the wind.

But as I was walking to get here, I had the umbrella open.

It was raining.

It was coming down pretty good, but just before I reached the location where I started recording, the rain stopped, and at the moment, we are rain-free, but the umbrella is in my back pocket, and I am ready to pull that thing out, pop it open should the rain restart.

And it certainly looks like it could.

I want to circle back to something I mentioned briefly the other days, talking about a survey that the AARP did.

The survey was asking the question, what barriers prevent you from walking and there were more than a

dozen reasons barriers that people encountered that prevented them from pursuing walking getting out

and being consistent with walking as a fitness activity and one of of the barriers was, I don't have the time.

And I took a moment and explained my own personal reaction to that

and how I realized I was using that or its cousin, I'm too busy,

as an excuse to not do something that I didn't want to do.

At the same time, I also recognize for some, perhaps even you, that that's a legitimate

barrier, not having the time. And I specifically mentioned those who are in caregiving

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