Is weightlifting a more social form of exercise than running?

And what does this have to do with walking?

Hang on, this could get interesting.

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 yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in

2013. 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.

I was listening to a podcast yesterday about strength training, lifting weights.

The guest was a young woman in her 30s.

She lifts weights.

She's also a kinesiologist, exercise kinesiologist, physical kinesiologist.

I'm not sure what combination of those two words goes well together.

I'm not even sure I'm pronouncing kinesiologist right, but it is a fun word to say.

Kinesiologist.

And she was talking about the benefits of lifting weights and how a lot of times when we're

talking about exercise and we're thinking about exercise, we tend to think of it in terms of

the cardio part of exercise. But the recommendations for exercise not only include

at least 150 minutes of cardio, but also two days a week of strength training. Now, if you are

just getting started and right now establishing a habit, a routine of walking on a consistent daily basis is really challenging for you

and you're hearing this. You mean, you mean I have to lift weights as well? No, don't hear that

right now. Job one. Job one for you is establishing a daily, consistent exercise habit using walking.

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