Have you discovered the paradox of walking?

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've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps a day.

I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is humid, it is cloudy, even to the point of foggy, and it is very damp, where I am walking along a trail near my home.

So through a wooded area, we got some pretty intense downpours yesterday afternoon and again

last night. And things are still wet from all that rain including the trees that I am walking under

because there's a little bit of a breeze every now and then it'll shake the moisture off the leaves

and it'll drop on my head and I'm like, eh, it's raining. No, it's not.

So if I have a slightly startled reaction during our walk, that would be, why, it just happened.

Rain drops keep falling on my head. You can even hear it, can't you?

It's actually not raining. It's just the wind knocking the moisture off the trees.

So, about 15, 20 years ago, I went through a very challenging season at work.

Some changes were made to my job that were hard for me to take.

And I even was considering, do I want to keep doing what I'm doing?

Do I want to keep doing it where I'm working? Do I want to keep working here? And this season lasted for a while. And I'll never forget

vacation along the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Every morning and probably afternoon as well,

I took long walks along the beach.

Now, this was well before I had a Fitbit,

so these walks had nothing to do with getting my steps,

and they had almost nothing to do with exercise.

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