What's Your Micro-Reward?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Small rewards for keeping your fitness commitment or fitness promise can provide added motivation. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares what Patty is doing that has made made a huge difference for her.
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| 0:00.0 | If you struggle with motivation, Patty has a really, really good idea. |
| 0:11.0 | 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 yourself. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. I started |
| 0:22.2 | walking for fitness in 2013, still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking |
| 0:28.7 | right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. One of the biggest |
| 0:35.3 | questions topics that comes up on the Start Today Facebook group, |
| 0:40.3 | which is a group started by the Today Show to encourage you to move more, sit less, |
| 0:47.4 | to begin pursuing fitness and keep pursuing fitness primarily through walking. |
| 0:52.6 | Lots of wonderful ideas, encouragement, challenges on this Facebook group. |
| 0:58.8 | One of the ones that I've seen that comes up continually is this idea of motivation. |
| 1:05.5 | It is hard to get moving to get out the front door when there's no motivation. |
| 1:12.3 | You had motivation yesterday, or maybe you didn't, |
| 1:15.6 | and you're facing these challenging circumstances, |
| 1:18.2 | maybe the weather isn't what you want, didn't sleep well, |
| 1:22.9 | and it's just hard to get moving. |
| 1:24.6 | Motivation for fitness in many ways is the hardest part of exercise. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, I got an email recently from Patty. Let me pull this up here and |
| 1:37.3 | yes I am walking in the dark as I read this email and I'm tripping over with that. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, nice branch right in the middle of the path. |
| 1:49.1 | That's never good. |
| 1:50.2 | All right. |
| 1:50.7 | Here's what Patty writes. |
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