There's a tension that I feel as I pursue fitness, and I suspect there are times when you feel it as well.

Welcome to Walking as 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'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

This is one of those episodes where I need to state emphatically up front that I'm not a doctor.

I'm not a licensed personal trainer.

This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only.

I also need to state that I'm not going to provide an answer to attention that I feel and that you may feel as well. Because I don't want

it to sound like I'm giving specific advice, certainly medical advice or specific exercise advice.

I'm going to talk about this from the perspective of my experience

and the challenge and the struggle that I have felt over the years. Rest is important to life.

And not just sleep, certainly that is, but even rest while we are awake and more

specifically rest is important in the pursuit of fitness one of the things

that I've I've learned over the years is that exercise intense exercise breaks

down muscle and it's the rest that allows that muscle to rebuild

and rebuild even stronger. And so when I simply am pursuing intense exercise and I'm not allowing

my body to rest, I'm actually doing more harm than good.

And I've been in a situation, I've been in a season where that's what I was doing. I was

over-training. I was pushing my body much more intensely without giving it the opportunity

to rebuild, to rest.

And I paid a price for that.

And so as I continue this pursuit of fitness,

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