Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself.

And we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Walking along a field, it's sort of a path that runs parallel to the lake that is behind our community.

It is a quiet morning. I'm out early before the sunrise. Temperature is cool, not cold, it's cool.

What's really nice is the wind is almost non-existent.

If you are brand new, brand new to this podcast,

maybe this is a brand new fitness journey, a brand new commitment that you've made to fitness.

How do you feel?

Not emotionally.

How do you feel physically?

A little sore maybe?

Working some muscles consistently that aren't used to getting worked.

By the way, I'm not a licensed personal trainer, not a

doctor. This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. Oftentimes, when we

begin exercising, and in this walk that you and I are taking, it's exercise. Sometimes we have a hard time wrapping our brain and our emotions around

walking as exercise. All movement is good. It's better to be moving than sitting, we're

told by the experts. And if you're walking at a moderate pace, three to four miles an hour,

it's a little bit faster than what you would be moving, say, in a grocery store,

you're doing this moderate pace. This is exercise.

And so you do this every day, consistently, you might be feeling the impact on your muscles.

You might be sore.

You might be, it's like, oh, okay, this is doing something.

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