All right, are you ready for our 10-minute walk together?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable

for keeping our commitment to fitness.

This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit plan. If you want to turn your

walking from functional to fitness, create an exercise habit, a fitness habit that lasts for a long,

long time. The StepFit plan will help you get there. It is effective. It is free and it is yours.

Go to walking as fitness.com.

Check out the resource page.

There's also a link in the show notes for today's episode.

I kept the sponsor short because what I want to talk about today is something I feel deeply, pretty passionately, and I'm probably going to go beyond 10 minutes.

I'm going to give myself as much time as possible.

By the way, hi, I'm Dave.

Thank you for joining me for today's 10-minute walk.

I want to talk about the elephant in the room,

not the one I talked about a few weeks ago when I had a cold.

That is in the rearview mirror now.

What I want to talk about is walking versus running,

which is a better form of exercise,

which is a more effective fitness activity?

If I'm being honest, and I am, when I made the transition from running to walking,

I struggled with feelings of, well, walking is less than.

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