Sometimes getting started is just so hard.

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. Renee recently posted this in the Start Today Facebook group. If you're not familiar with that,

the Today Show since the beginning of June has been encouraging their viewers and anyone else

to get moving, to walk every day. And so Renee joined the group and she wrote this.

I joined this thinking I would get motivated to start my journey.

But I'm still sitting and doing absolutely nothing.

I have a treadmill and an elliptical that's a dust collector, L.O.L.

I love all the success stories I've read so far, and you would think that would

get me moving. I don't know what's going on. For some, getting started is very easy.

These are folks who set a brand new fitness goal, usually around the first of the year.

They're excited about the eventual transformation, the brand new start, this new thing,

and their motivation tank is filled to the brim.

The problem is, the challenge is, that motivation is almost always entirely

emotionally based. And those emotions can't last forever. And when they fade, as they always do,

so does the motivation. So getting started isn't hard for these folks. Keeping going is hard.

But there are others like Renee who have a hard time even getting started. And so I want to talk to

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