I'm going to try something today that I rarely do, and this could get interesting.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness, a daily podcast that encourages you to create and sustain a habit of walking.

Today's 10-minute walk starts in just a moment.

Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a fitness habit that

will last. A fitness habit I believe you're going to fall in love with. Takes time. If you're just

getting started, this might still very much feel like I have to, got to get

out and take the walk.

But if you don't give up, if you keep pushing forward, keep moving, I believe that walking consistently,

maybe even every day, is something that you'll fall in love with.

And it becomes a get to, a want to, and not a have to.

And I also believe that this is a habit that will change your life.

So today's walk is a little bit different from usual.

Just to open a window here into how I do this.

Every episode, I usually have a plan, there's no script, but I have a plan, I have a topic that I want to talk about,

and I might even have a couple of notes that I use that are on my phone that I'll refer to, but again no script,

but I know where I'm going with

the episode. Every now and then, I'll just turn the microphone on, start walking, and really have

no idea where the episode is going. So there's no pre-planned topic. There are no notes. It's just you and me

taking a walk. And isn't this really the way we walk? I mean, I guess, you know, there are times

when I'll head out with Ava, my wife, and we'll go for a walk and we're talking. And there may be

something before we leave the house

I think okay I'd like to to talk about this and then at some point during the walk I'll bring it up and

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