What is the difference between a fitness promise and a fitness goal?

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 just under 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. Gorgeous morning in South Carolina, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The sun is up. The skies are clear, the wind is calm,

there is some ground fog, which is just gorgeous.

I had a very interesting situation last night as Abe and I were walking.

We finished dinner, cleaned up, and then went for a walk.

Usually it's about a mile or so.

And we have several different options. One is just to kind of do a perimeter around the neighborhood.

And then we have a longer walk where we will leave the neighborhood and head towards town.

And we chose the longer walk, which is what we tend to choose. And there is a sidewalk in the back of the neighborhood that connects our neighborhood with a paved pathway just outside our neighborhood that we can walk towards town.

And we were getting almost, almost at that sidewalk.

And there was another couple that I sort of recognize that was walking and coming in the other

direction, and I thought, hey, this is going to be one of

those awkward moments where we're going to hit the sidewalk at the same time. What do we do?

Now, the introvert in me is thinking all the possible ways, well, maybe we could just like

keep going, you know, for for maybe three minutes and then turn around and come back and hit the sidewalk.

Otherwise, we're going to be on the sidewalk maybe two feet in front of them, you know, which just screams awkward to me.

And sure enough, that's what happened. Reach the sidewalk and they were like two feet

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