Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk.

Most people believe that walking is easy fitness.

Most people are wrong.

Today, I'm going to give you five reasons why walking every day is harder than most

realize. You might be thinking, well, this is going to be a really discouraging episode.

Quite contrary, I think this is going to be a really encouraging episode, but you have to give

me until

towards the end to flip that coin over. By the way, before we get into this, I want to state

right up front that I'm not a doctor. I'm not a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for

education and entertainment purposes only. Before we get into the

five reasons, I should define our terms, particularly if you're brand new to this podcast.

And when I talk about walking every day, what I'm talking about is walking as exercise, not the

casual walking that most of us, well, all of us tend to do throughout the course of the day,

casual walking that is really functional walking, probably a better way to put it, where we are

going from one room to the next,

we're walking from the car into work or maybe a store.

That's functional walking. It tends to be casual walking.

While movement is good, walking is good.

That walking generally does not rise to the level of exercise.

For it to be exercise, it needs to be intentional, it needs to be consistent, and it needs to have some intensity.

And the intensity really is the key here in terms of whether a single walk will rise to the

level of exercise.

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