Today we're going to let some hills kick my butt.

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 to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking since 2013. I've been walking for fitness

since 2013. Actually walking since, well, that's a whole different story. I average about 21,000 steps

a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. I am using my

inside voice. Not inside. I am outside. But I am in Maryland, a brief one day, one-night trip

from South Carolina to Maryland. Spent the evening at my son's house, daughter-in-law.

Got to see my two grandchildren.

I love that.

And I'm now walking in their neighborhood, which has a lot of homes close to the road.

It's early in the morning, and I don't want to be that crazy guy who is walking through the neighborhood

talking to himself and not even someone that they're used to seeing. So keeping my voice a little bit

lower. So one of the things that we miss, sort of, living in South Carolina that we had in

Maryland, but don't have in South Carolina, are hills. South Carolina, at least Myrtle Beach,

is flat.

I mean, just totally flat, assuming you don't count curbs,

which has some advantages, but it also has some disadvantages,

because while there are psychological barriers to walking up and down hills,

they provide a pretty robust and intense workout

that you just can't replicate when you're walking on a level surface continually.

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