Jonah discovers the true value of a fitness chain. 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 about 21,000 steps a day.

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

This is going to get interesting. I actually started recording this maybe five minutes earlier.

I'm walking through a wooded trail near my home, and there are a couple.

And I started walking along the other trails early in the morning here, and I started walking along that trail,

and within 60 seconds was a snack for three different mosquitoes.

It's like, nope, this is not gonna work.

So stopped recording, left that trail

and came to another one that's a little different,

that's in a different place, and so far, the mosquitoes don't seem to be as hungry here so we'll

see how long this this lasts got an email recently from jonah who has been keeping a fitness promise, building a fitness chain, walking the length of her

block and back. It's a 10-minute walk. That's her promise to walk 10 minutes every day. It's a chain

that she started on April 21st and has kept to this day. Well, Jonah had, and I had never really thought of

this before, she actually had a double chain going. So there was the promise to walk every day for

10 minutes. And as her fitness capacity has grown, she started building a second

chain of walking 10,000 steps a day. And she was disappointed that that chain ended after 19 days.

But she was writing because in the past,

when she has stopped pursuing fitness,

that would often sidetrack her for a long time, if not for, you know, really putting an end to that particular fitness journey.

She said, but this time is different. So she was disappointed that the chain of 10,000 steps a day ended after 19 days.

But that did not derail her.

She continued to keep her promise, to walk 10 minutes a day,

...