Okay, so before we get started today, you need to listen all the way to the very end.

Awkward moment coming. Okay, let's go.

Sometimes you just need a break. 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 to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've

been walking for fitness since 2013 averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

And as you can probably tell, I am not walking in my normal place, which is outside. At the moment, I'm walking in my house, doing loops between

the kitchen, the dining area, which has a little rug, so you can't hear my footsteps. I can

circle out here to the living room, walking by the fan, that feels so good, and then heading

towards the front door and back again.

And why am I doing this?

Well, you know, the reality is sometimes the weather is

a little more than challenging

you know here in the North America we are in

summertime

it is hot

it is sticky and not everybody

has the same heat muscles, the same heat tolerance. I love summer.

I grew up in Maryland, which is very humid. A year and a half ago, Ava and I moved to South

Carolina, which is even more humid and hotter. I actually, from time to time, find that my

heat muscles are kind of getting stretched a bit and even challenged a bit. So I'm not walking

inside at the moment because it's too hot for me outside, but simply as a demonstration that if it's too hot, or maybe it's raining too hard, or if you're in the southern hemisphere where it's winter now and it's too cold. If it's too, something.

And you're considering whether to skip a day.

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