You're doing something pretty powerful this walk that you probably don't even realize.

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 started

walking for fitness in 2013 and 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. It's not happening right now

and even if it starts up, I'm not entirely sure you can hear it because it's on the other side of the field.

There, did you hear that? It's a woodpecker.

In one of those trees, he's just pounding away.

When we lived in Maryland, we had some woodpeckers that were in the area.

And one day I heard the bird pounding on the tree and determined it was right on the other side of the street,

walked over there very slowly and quietly because i don't want to scare

the bird away or scare the bird to stop and he kept pecking away at the tree and i finally figured out

which tree he was in and looked up and saw him and was shocked at how big he was.

Because I grew up with the cartoon Woody Woodpecker,

the cartoon bird was really kind of small.

Or at least that was my impression.

And when I saw a real woodpecker, it's like, oh my, that's not Woody.

I was listening to a podcast earlier this week,

and the guest was talking about his morning routine,

which was actually several hours long,

not the podcast, but his morning routine lasted several hours. And he began his mornings really early, I think. It was around 4.30. The routine involved an hour of meditation. It involved a fitness activity. He did burpees and then some intensely focused work.

And he's been doing this for years.

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