Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Just before I pressed record, I was thinking about how quiet it is.

And it's not going to be quiet for long

because I see a car getting ready to turn on the road

next to where I'm walking and it's going to be going by

in just a moment.

But there were no cars.

I'm out again really early in the morning.

It's dark.

And other than this car approaching, there were no other cars out.

It was just quiet.

I could even hear one of the things I like about living in South Carolina, compared to Maryland, we're 500 miles further south, is, I don't know if you can hear it.

There are still bugs.

And sometimes it's good to take a quiet walk.

I talk a lot about the shocks headphones and how they've been game changers for me.

But sometimes it's good just to have nothing on.

No podcast, no music, no audiobook, just quiet.

I'm going to get out of my lane for a moment for the next 10 minutes, and I'm going to try to talk about something that is hard for me to understand

in a way that I can explain it to others, but I think it's important.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation

to help you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. So I'm going to state up front what I say often,

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