So what is the minimum that I have to do? 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 I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

All right, I guess I need to acknowledge it officially, no matter which way you look at it, whether you're a meteorologist or a calendar

watcher, today in the Northern Hemisphere is the first day of winter. If you're in the

southern hemisphere, welcome to summer. So what's the minimum that I need to do?

Have you ever asked that question?

You're approaching something, probably something that you're not looking forward to,

and you want to know what's the least I can do so that this will work,

so that this will be effective.

And of course, so many of us approach

exercise that way particularly as we're just getting started and it feels like this is something

i have to do it's not something i want to do so what's the minimum that i can do and still have it

work by the way when it comes to exercise and fitness, I think this is a great question.

You know, sometimes we look at this as kind of taking the easy way out, and certainly I've looked at it that way before,

and I've had people say that to me when I've expressed, yeah, so what's the least I can do here?

What are you trying to take the easy way out? Yeah. Actually, I am. But when it comes to fitness,

I think this question, this approach is actually preferable. Because I know people, particularly

around this time of year, is they're contemplating the new year and some goals and resolutions,

people who describe themselves as being all in, when I'm into something, I'm all in.

You know, they dive in, dive in the deep end.

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