If you recently starting following this blog, you may be wondering why you haven’t seen any posts. Or, more likely, you’ve given it no thought at all. Either way…thank you! My guess is you have a desire to use walking as a fitness activity and any added motivation you can find is helpful…which is why […] The post Where Are The Blog Posts? appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

Are you ready to change your life? If so, take a walk. Here are five ways that an intentional daily walk can impact you. Jumpstart your exercise in 2024 with Walking is Fitness, a daily ten-minute walking podcast YOU GET STRONGER A friend recently had heart bypass surgery. The doctors wanted him up and walking […] The post These Five Things Can Happen When You Walk Every Day appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

Years ago I set an exercise goal that I’m embarrassed to admit. But, I will. I wanted to run a marathon shirtless. As vain as that sounds, it really was about something else. This goal tapped into something deep for me. I’m a skinny guy who’s never been comfortable in a bathing suit. That discomfort […] The post Why Exercise Goals Don’t Work appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

This blog began in September 2018. At some point after that you chose to receive an email with a new article attached. Thank you! I truly hope these posts have brought value to your walking journey. In September 2020 the Walking is Fitness podcast began. For more than a year it was the audio version […] The post Time For A Change appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

Are you ready to change your life? If so, take a walk. Here are five ways that an intentional daily walk can impact you. YOU GET STRONGER A friend recently had heart bypass surgery. The doctors wanted him up and walking as soon as possible. Those daily walks have been an important part of his […] The post These Five Things Can Happen When You Walk Everyday appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

If you’re considering a fitness reboot, I have good news and bad news.  We’ll begin with the bad news. Starting a new fitness journey is hard. Restarting a fitness journey is even harder. You go into it knowing the challenges ahead, aware that progress is really slow, and with a nagging feeling that you’ve already […] The post Do You Want A Fitness Restart? appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

I raised the white flag.  I love summer. So does Ava. That’s one of the reasons we moved 500 miles farther south. We extended summer and shortened winter. And, then last August happened. I experienced a relentless combination of heat and humidity that I wasn’t used too. I thought my “summer muscles” were pretty strong. […] The post Struggling With Summer Fitness Motivation? appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

Every day I see Mark, Susan, John, Ruth, Jim, Angelo, Mike, Cathy, and Don walk past my home office window. There are others, too, but I don’t know their names. They are all walking for exercise. Some, multiple times a day. In 2018, NBC News called walking the most underrated form of exercise. There’s an […] The post How To Use Walking For Exercise appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

Jonna wondered what the neighbors would think. She says that kept her from getting outside and walking. Gratefully, it’s no longer something that is holding her back. We all have a story of the thing that kept us from fitness. Looking back, it might feel silly now. Hopefully, we also have a story of what […] The post What’s Holding You Back? appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more

The answer was yes, and I didn’t even have to think about it. Recently, I was a guest on The Retirement Wisdom podcast and was asked an interesting question. Joe Casey is the host who had been a long-time triathlete. That came to a sudden and unexpected end when he suffered a running injury that […] The post The Surprise Benefit of Walking appeared first on Walking is Fitness ..read more