When is it better to sit rather than walk?

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 started walking for fitness in 2013 and still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

I'm about to get started on my walk today and I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Let me paint the picture for you real quick. I'm in a hotel room in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and I'm leaving that room right now.

It's pretty early in the morning, and so I'm walking down the hall, and I'm going to use my

inside voice as I do that, because I don't want to wake up people who are still asleep, and I

imagine most of these folks are still asleep.

And if you've been listening in the last couple of days, certainly yesterday, you have a better idea.

All right, I have left the hallway now walking downstairs and I believe there is a exit door.

Oh, it's right here. I can feel the cold air. And so we're

leaving the hotel and outside. And I believe if I looked at my map correctly, if I go this way,

I can connect to a sidewalk, and that sidewalk takes me down towards a park. Two days ago, I walked across the Arthur Ravinell Bridge,

which connects Mount Pleasant to Charleston, South Carolina, or hotel,

is on the Mount Pleasant side,

and the hotel is five, ten minute walk from the park where you actually can get on that bridge and walk over to Charleston.

So on a sidewalk now, and things are rather quiet as I expected that they would be this early in the morning.

So here in Mount Pleasant at a hotel because my wife yesterday had major abdominal surgery.

She is in the hospital right now is there for at least two nights.

So last night and tonight at least, and then depending on her recovery, may be able to go home

after that second night, or she may need to stay a little bit longer. That's still to be determined. By the way,

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