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. That is if you are building a 90-day

fitness chain, if you're just getting started, this is one of the things that I recommend

that you do, because creating a fitness habit is really, really hard. And it takes,

the research tells us, it takes on average 66 days to create a habit. And the best thing to do,

if you want to build a habit, create a habit, is the consistency, is the everydayness of it.

And so taking a 10-minute walk every day for 90 days is a great way to establish a fitness habit. But maybe you've got the habit and you're

moving along and you just want to freshen things up a bit. You want a new challenge. I encourage you to take

the April walking his fitness challenge. It's a one-month challenge. And the way this works,

you're not necessarily building a fitness chain with this challenge. You're setting a goal.

In April, I'm going to walk 20 minutes a day, 30 minutes a day. Or if you prefer to count your

steps, I'm going to walk 5,000 steps a day, or 7,000 steps a day, or 10,000 steps a day.

Whatever is appropriate for you that feels like there's a little bit of a challenge and then

download the April walking is fitness challenge tracker it's free there's a

link in the show notes and every day you fulfill that goal you reach that goal

you mark it off and then there's room for you to write in exactly what you did. So, for example,

if your goal is 5,000 steps, but you got 6,284, write that in. And then at the end of each line

is a heart, because some days are harder than others. Some days it's easy. The weather's

nice. You've got the time. It was easy to get out the door and meet that challenge, to meet that

daily goal. Other days, not so much. Other days it's really hard. And on those really hard days, color in a heart.

And what you're providing is proof that you're doing a hard thing.

Also, as you continue to do this, you'll be able to look back and go,

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