The challenge of getting started. That's what we're going to talk about today on walking is fitness.

Hi, I'm Dave. This is a daily 10-minute podcast designed to help you create a life-changing habit of walking.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

It is a sneaky cold day here in Myrtle Beach. The temperature is above freezing, significant, well, not significantly.

It's not just above freezing.

I think we're in the low, no, it's 50 degrees. That's why I was thinking

this isn't going to be too bad. But it is cloudy, so I don't have the heat of the sunshine. It is

windy. And as I'm walking along the wooded trail, I'm cold. Sneaky cold. I wasn't expecting 50 degrees to

feel, well, not like 50 degrees. Comment to a recent walking as fitness YouTube video from a viewer in Pakistan. I am a 49 year old obese woman

and I've been struggling with walking for many years. But finding your channel is a blessing in

disguise. I have started walking again. Thank you and keep it up.

I want to talk about the challenge of getting started, why it's hard, and then five things

that can help if you are struggling to get started.

I think there are three reasons, three primary reasons, why getting started is hard.

If you've been sedentary for a long time maybe overweight physical movement walking is

physically uncomfortable if you've been doing this for a while and you've got a

fitness capacity that's pretty good and and this is something you look forward to you

probably even find pleasure physical pleasure in movement in walking I know that's

what I feel when I open the door and head out but for someone getting started

that's not happening.

And that discomfort is most likely contributing to even more sedentary behavior.

I'm more comfortable when I'm sitting.

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