Hi friends. Welcome to Walking is Fitness the podcast. I'm Dave. It is a beautiful pre-sunrise morning here in Myrtle Beach. A little breezy.

The tropical system moved through yesterday and even though the skies are clear, it's

a little windier than it usually is.

So I'm out here walking, and probably the biggest surprise, and I feel it's every time

I go for a walk each morning, is where is everybody?

Why isn't everybody out walking for exercise?

I am surprised. I'm amazed that so few people walk for exercise.

And I think there are three primary reasons why that happens.

Number one, this isn't so much walking as exercise, they don't feel like they need exercise.

You know, the reality is, even though we continue to hear about the benefits of exercise and how everybody needs to get, according to the CDC, at least 150 minutes a week

of moderate level physical activity.

Even though we hear that, I don't think that registers.

I think what happens is we're motivated to exercise based on on how we feel and how we look and we can always point to someone else

we can always see someone else who is in worse shape than we are so we compare and say well i well, I'm not as bad as him. He's not,

I don't need exercise. You know, we start gaining a little bit of weight. I have a slender build.

It's just the DNA I was given. Grateful for that. But approaching midlife, what happens to the men of my family

is our mid-sections, our bellies begin to pack on the pounds. And in my mid-to-late 40s, that

was starting to happen. And looking in the mirror, going, I'm not sure I like this.

So there was a physical appearance component to that.

I was also starting to feel some health issues.

I did not get checked by, Dr. Bacetele,

I could tell there were some blood sugar issues

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