Earlier this year I did an episode about a guy named Mike Weaver who lives in Ohio, who walked five miles every single day for 22 years and 16 days. Talk about your fitness chains. Five miles a day for 22 years and 16 days. I don't know if

you remember that episode, but if you do, or it actually doesn't matter whether you do or not, as you're

hearing me right now, talk about this incredible streak of walking five miles every

single day for 22 years and 16 days. What do you think? I mean, certainly, first reaction is,

oh, that's easy. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. No, that's not our first reaction.

Our first reaction probably is some variation of, oh my, that's really hard.

What is it about walking five miles every single day for 22 years and 16 days that's hard?

Is it the five miles?

Certainly, that's not easy.

That's the equivalent for most of us of walking 10,000 steps.

I think the real thing that amazes us when we hear stories of people like Mike

Weaver isn't the distance they're walking or how many steps they're getting. What really blows

us away is the 22 years and 16 days, the every single day.

It's the consistency because that's really the hard part of fitness.

That's really the hard part of what you and I are doing.

That's what amazes us.

That's what blows us away because we recognize it ourselves, at least I do, that's really hard.

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