Today's episode comes from a trendy fitness center. 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

would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. Recent edition of the Wall Street

Journal, the Digital Edition, had a fascinating article complete with video demonstrations of how you can stay in shape,

do exercise while you are at the airport waiting for your flight.

And the video showed the fitness editor doing lunges and curls and modified pushups and probably a

half dozen different exercises using the seats in the waiting area and watching her and

thinking there's absolutely no way you're going to catch me in the seating area

while I'm waiting for a flight doing modified push-ups and lunges.

I'm just too self-conscious to do that. I'm not saying that the exercises can't be

effective. Of course they can. I'm just saying I don't want everybody else who has nothing to do

making me their entertainment while I used the waiting time to get on board as an opportunity for fitness.

That said, airports actually can be a viable and effective fitness center,

and airports are starting to embrace this concept because you don't have to sit while you're waiting for a flight. You are free to get up

and walk around, which is what I'm doing right now as I wait for my flight at BWI Airport. And if you're

not familiar with those three letters, BWI stands for Baltimore, Washington International.

This is the airport out of Baltimore. And as I mentioned in yesterday's episode, here in Maryland,

a quick business trip, and I'm now flying back to my home in Myrtle Beach. And I'm at the airport

early enough that I do have a little bit of time

and I'm going to take advantage of that and do some walking and the cool thing is airports are

starting to actually embrace this and promote fitness opportunities and just how much walking space they have. And interestingly

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