What I learned from my friend who doesn't like walking.

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've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me

for the next 10 minutes. A few weeks ago, we had some dear friends of ours come and stay with us

for a week. It's one of the advantages of living in

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, just a couple of miles from the ocean. We have become,

and we wanted it to be this way. We have become a destination for family and friends who either want a long weekend at the beach or maybe even

entire week. And so Ava has set up one of the rooms in our home as a guest bedroom.

She even made a sign if you ever stayed at a hotel or Airbnb. They have a sign in the

room, the internet information, you know, username, password, which always has fresh flowers in there

when friends or family arrives. She just has made it a really inviting space because

we want people to come and stay with us. A few weeks ago, dear friends of ours came, stayed

for a week. They're an interesting couple. We've known them for a long time. Love them to pieces.

In some ways, they are the same person. In other ways, not so much, specifically in the

area of fitness. They're about our age. He really has no interest in exercise and fitness.

And she is totally the opposite.

She's actually a licensed personal trainer.

So she pursues fitness for her own health.

And then her job is to help others pursue fitness for their health.

Abe and I take a walk most nights, and we continue to do that even when we have folks staying with us.

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