Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk.

A little while ago, I made a note of this. I don't know if it was recently or a couple of months ago.

There was a comment left on YouTube after one of the Walkiness Fitness YouTube videos by someone who goes by the Rosie Lass.

And she writes, I have a sign in my home office where my exercise equipment is.

Consistency is more important than intensity. And that grabbed my attention.

I'm like, oh, I don't know that I've ever heard it put quite that way, but I think I agree with it.

That was my initial before I engaged my brain and thought through and analyzed, well,

how true is that? It was simply consistency is more important than intensity. And in that moment,

it's like, I agree with that. Years ago, probably now, more than three decades ago, I worked at the radio station and I did a split shift.

And so I worked in the mornings. I was doing news at the time. I did the news in the morning for the morning show, and then I was off for a

handful of hours, and then I would go back in the afternoon and do the news for the afternoon show.

I did that for about a year, and in that season of life, Eve and I didn't have children. We had

been married a few years.

We still weren't parents.

She worked full time.

That schedule was doable.

I think I actually enjoyed it for most of that time.

There was something as an introvert that having five hours in the middle of the day that was all mine to do with whatever I wanted, that was really appealing.

And I took advantage of that. And one of the things that I did quite frequently, not every day, but my memory is that I did it certainly did it more than once and I think I did it often.

Is I would go to a nearby park, a state park, and I would drive into the park, and I would get out of my car, and I would walk.

And this was before walking was for me exercise it was not a

fitness activity it was simply something that I enjoyed doing and there was one particular loop

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