If you struggle with staying consistent with exercise, Walking is Fitness can help. This is a daily ten-minute podcast that’ll provide you with a boost of motivation. There’s a new episode every day that Dave records while he’s walking too. Tap here for a quick sample “What are you doing?” texted my wife. “Is that […]
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I walked through the quiet neighborhood as the sky brightened with early daylight beyond the trees. Sunrise was ten-minutes away. The air was cold, but I was layered up so it felt good. The empty street inclined ahead. I picked up the pace to get my heart beating a little faster. As the road leveled
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I’m pretty sure it’s the thing about me that annoys my wife the most. Our house is littered with unfinished projects. There’s the bedroom downstairs that still doesn’t have floor molding. There’s the hole in the wall I created for a plumbing repair. There are the two pieces of tile I still haven’t replaced when
“How long before the surgery starts?” I had to ask that question three times before they finally understood what I wanted to know. My wife, Ava, was in pre-op. We had already talked to the doctor who told us the surgery would take between 30 and 45 minutes. It was minor outpatient surgery. Ava kept
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The odds of reaching your goal just went up significantly. Research shows if you started pursuing a goal on January 1st your chance of reaching the finish line was just 8%. If you are still going today your chance of finishing successfully just shot up to 40%. What can you do to make certain you’re
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How many times could I walk around the perimeter of Target before I looked suspicious? My world changed the day I got my first Fitbit and began to realize walking was the fitness activity I truly loved. I used to be like most everybody else. I drove around the parking lot to find the closest
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Would you attend an outdoor party on a day that was cloudy, windy, and barely felt warmer than 30 degrees? That might not be your idea of a good time, yet, thousands did. It happened on Brown’s Island in Richmond, Virginia on a cold day last November. There was a live band, food trucks, and
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President Harry Truman had a daily step goal. Long before any of us had a Fitbit strapped to our wrist, the president would leave the White House every morning at 7am and walk two miles at a pace of 120 steps per minute. President Truman never walked alone. He always had Secret Service agents with
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When Nancy set her New Year goal to reach 10,000 steps every day for a year she wasn’t entirely sure how she was going to do it. Before January 1, 2019, Nancy averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 steps a day because she has a desk job and sits A LOT. But, when you have big
We should just stop talking on the hill, but we don’t. Instead, it takes us longer to finish our sentences as our breathing becomes more intentional. The hill is less than a half mile from our house and there’s no way around it if Ava and I are going for a long walk together. We’re
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