Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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

And how many people these days, when given the choice between easy and hard, do what you're doing.

So good on you.

Welcome to Walking as 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, averaging just about 21,000 steps a day. That is not my goal,

but really a reflection of how much I love doing this.

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

It is a little breezy this morning. At the moment, it's calm, but you may hear the wind from time to time and I don't

know why but I always feel the need to apologize for that because I know that at times I can be

a little distracting remember 60 minutes remember Andy Rooney when Andy Rooney was Remember 60 minutes? Remember Andy Rooney? When Andy Rooney was on 60

minutes, he was always the last commentator, came at the very end, offering some sort of

analysis or commentary, and usually it had a bit of a humorous twist not always but some of the time

and then he had an interesting voice and an interesting way of talking and then Saturday night live

and I forget who it was, Saturday Night Live started

spoofing Andy Rooney. Have you ever noticed? Have you ever noticed how people don't like to walk?

Have you ever noticed that? Have you? Have you ever noticed that?

We live in a culture that discourages walking. And I don't know the history of that and when that started.

Maybe it was the TV remote control.

Someone got tired of getting up and walking 10 steps to change the channel,

sitting back down, liking what they were watching,

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