Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013 and I've averaged almost 21,000 steps a day.

That's not my goal, but really a reflection of just how much I love walking.

In fact, I'm doing it right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

My goal today is to demonstrate to you, in fact, even to prove to you that walking is the best exercise, the best fitness activity on the

entire planet. And I'm going to do that by telling you a story of a bike ride that happened yesterday.

So I have mentioned that in addition to walking, the other fitness activities that I enjoy do, enjoy, are strength training. I do some high-intensity aerobic activity. And I also have a bike,

a one-speed cruiser, because here in Myrtle Beach, there are zero hills. And you don't need.

I don't need multiple speeds.

One speed cuts it and I enjoy.

Actually, I love riding my bike in the afternoon.

And while there is a fitness benefit for that bike ride, it's more about just the enjoyment of being on my bike and riding, particularly when the weather is warm to hot.

In fact, I will not ride in cold weather.

I have not made a commitment. I have not made a commitment.

I have not made a fitness promise to ride my bike every day regardless.

That is purely a when the weather is good and the time is there, I hop on my bike.

So yesterday I was riding and was lost in thought.

In fact, I was so lost in thought that at one point, it's like, did I, because I have a normal route that I take, did I, did I, like, miss a whole section?

And I, I really, I can't remember because I was working through a creative issue for my job.

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