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Walking is Fitness - Five Ways To Make A Daily Walk More Fun

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Author: Walking is Fitness
Categories: Fitness Productivity
Tags: fitness, productivity
Views: 2 · Last viewed: 2026-10-16 14:01 UTC

Short Summary

Main recommendation: make a daily walk more enjoyable by working on five areas: comfort, location, time of day, what you listen to, and gamifying the walk. The speaker argues that enjoyment is the key to sticking with walking as fitness, since boredom makes consistency hard. He frames these as practical adjustments rather than a fixed program.

Key Points

  • Comfort comes first: wear shoes that fit your specific foot shape (arches, width) and clothing suited to the weather, since discomfort makes you skip walks.
  • Avoid pushing too far at the start; stop while you are still enjoying the walk so you want to return next time.
  • Change the location when your usual route is dull, such as driving to a park or a different city, as the speaker did by driving about an hour to Washington, DC.
  • Pick a time of day that fits your body clock, since morning people and evening people will find different walks more pleasant.
  • Use listening or social time to make walks enjoyable, including podcasts, audiobooks you only play while walking, phone calls with family or friends, or quiet walks.
  • Turn walking into a game with a modest daily step goal and small challenges, such as photographing something new each walk.

Details Worth Noting

Concrete instructions:

  • Comfort: visit a running store and have an expert size your feet and assess your arches to find shoes suited to your foot, rather than choosing by looks. If your knee or foot hurts after switching to new shoes, consider that the shoes may be the cause; the speaker switched shoes and his knee pain went away within a few days.
  • Clothing: choose clothing appropriate for the weather you are walking in.
  • Distance: if starting out, do not aim for 10,000 steps; a goal such as 5,000 steps is a more reasonable beginning. Walk until you are having the most fun and stop there.
  • Gamifying: set a daily step goal, and look for short walks during everyday waits (for example, a 500 to 1,000 step walk while your car is being serviced).
  • Photo challenge: each walk, photograph something you have never noticed before and share it with your step count, which the speaker did daily for a year to add accountability.
  • Listening: choose a podcast or audiobook and limit it to walking time so it becomes motivation to go out.
  • The speaker is not a doctor or licensed personal trainer; these are his personal experiences and suggestions, not professional medical advice.

The speaker says he has averaged 19,000 steps daily since 2013 and hosts a ten-minute daily podcast, Walking is Fitness, recorded while walking (he mentions hosting it for almost three years).

Bottom Line

Enjoyment is the practical lever for consistency: small changes to shoes, route, timing, audio, and goals can make walking something you keep doing.