Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard. Welcome to walking as fitness,

a podcast of action that provides a little extra motivation. Hi, I'm Dave. Since 2013, I've been walking

for fitness and have averaged over 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now, and I'd love for you to join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is a mild South Carolina morning, temperature 60 degrees, and I forgot to check.

All I was concerned about was temperature and wind. I didn't even think to check about the possibility of rain. It looks like a pretty thick cloud cover

right now. Yesterday I had a surprise rain about midway through the walk, so we'll see.

Could get interesting.

So this is probably not the best day to discuss this, but because right now, this is a pleasant weather to walk in.

But what happens when you have very unpleasant weather to walk in?

Obviously, wearing the right gear, the right clothing is important,

but I got an email from Barbara that was a great reminder that that's not all we need.

This episode is sponsored by the Step 5th.

Good morning. How are you? I'm well. How are you? Someone else out for a walk this morning. All right. This episode is sponsored by the StepFit plan. I want you to be

walking for fitness one year from now. The key is what you do today, what you're doing right now.

First establish that fitness habit and it's a little more challenging than we think.

I know, you know, we're walking.

How hard could it be?

But sticking with something, keeping that

promise that we made to ourselves, establishing a habit is a little more challenging than we think.

We think it takes 30 days. Research actually indicates, on average, 66 days to establish a habit, for some a little bit less for some a little bit more.

You get that habit going eventually fitness momentum happens and then on to fitness transformation.

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