Today, let's talk about walking as therapy.

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 about 21,000 steps a day. I'm

walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. It is a beautiful

morning here in South Carolina. The skies are clear. The temperature is crisp. I'm guessing

it's either right at normal or maybe a touch below

normal, and there is no wind. I've been out now for maybe 10 or 15 minutes, and I haven't even

felt a whiff of a breeze.

And I know this is going to sound like Captain Obvious, but the wind makes such a huge difference,

particularly when it's cold.

I find that my cold muscles are way stronger when the wind is way less present. You add in a nice

hefty breeze when the temperature is chilly and I'm not a happy camper, but today I'm a very happy camper.

Ava and I went for a walk the other night.

She had been not feeling well this week and really knocked her for a loop for a couple of days.

And as she was beginning to recover and beginning to regain her strength,

I asked if she wanted to go for a walk.

Expecting actually that she was going to say,

no, I don't have enough energy, but she surprised me and said, yeah, yeah, I would.

It was a very, very, very, very slow pace. The kind of slowness that actually, for me,

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