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.

It's one of those mornings where I woke up earlier than I had hoped to, expected to,

laid in bed for a little bit, thinking, maybe I'll fall asleep again. I did not. So, filled my

water bottle up, drank half of it. It's part of my routine now. And here I am. It is dark.

It is quiet.

And it is beautiful.

Clear skies, stars.

Yesterday talked about the long-term potential health benefits of fitness, of walking,

of this consistent daily pursuit of fitness, the three that mean the most to me.

I have long, contented, long said that those long-term benefits for most of us, most of the time, okay, this is interesting. What is that? It's a fox. He was running right towards me. He saw me. He stopped. And now he's, he turned tail and ran

in the other direction. He's stopping again. He's looking and off he goes. Oh, the things you see

before the sun comes up.

Most of the long-term benefits, potential health benefits of fitness, of exercise, of walking,

they can feel abstract, and not all of them, I think, are meaningful in the same way for most of us.

You can run through a list of these long-term benefits and some of them mean more to me than others.

And so yesterday I talked about the three that meant the most to me, plus a bonus one.

Today I want to talk about the benefits that are happening right now in the moment

as we are walking. And I think for most of us, this is what makes walking fun. This is what

really drives this pursuit of fitness when we can experience benefits in the moment as we're doing the activity.

And there are three in particular that I love, love about these daily consistent walks.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action. love about these daily consistent walks.

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