1KHO 719: How to Get More Out of Every Step You Take | Michael Easter, Walk With Weight

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Michael Easter returns for his third appearance, and this one feels like a relief: a simple way to get stronger, steadier, and more clear-headed without adding another complicated “wellness” project to your life. Ginny Yurich and Michael talk about the Two Percenter mindset, why walking is already powerful, and how adding a reasonable load can quietly upgrade nearly everything—muscle, bone density, core strength, endurance, mood, and even the way you move through everyday life (yes, even airports and errands). They also get practical about getting started with what you already own, why this works especially well for busy parents, and how time outside can turn down the mental noise and help you hear yourself again. Check out Walk with Weight , follow Michael’s Two Percent newsletter/substack , and learn more about Walkfully Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When was the last time you had space to feel?
0:04.0	With the National Trust, you might just find life standing still under towering trees.
0:10.0	Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past,
0:15.0	or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside.
0:20.0	Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the
0:23.0	National Trust, you can make space to feel. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name
0:32.5	is Jenny Urton, the founder of 1000 Hours Outside and Michael Easter is back. Welcome, Michael. My favorite podcast to be on. I'm so happy to be back. You have made me really cool with my brothers and my dad. I don't think they ever listened to my podcast until you came on. And then they were like, they're such big fans and they got the rucksacks. And like, I think they were traveling. Like maybe my dad and one of my brothers were traveling and they were like, well, we traveled.
0:56.6	We listened to your episode with Michael Easter.
0:58.5	So you came on a long time ago.
1:00.3	November, 2022, people can go back in January of 2024.
1:04.6	And now here it is 2026.
1:07.8	And the book is called Walk with Weight, the definitive guide to Rucking. Welcome back. Did I already say that? You did, but I'll take it back. I want to feel welcome. So now that we've said it however many times, I'm feeling really welcome right now. That's what matters. I think what's really cool is like when we talked at the very beginning, we talked about your incredible book called The Comfort Crisis. and then we talked about scarcity brain. And in the midst of it all, you have, I don't even
1:32.9	know what you would call it. It's like, you have come up with this slogan about being a two-percenter.
1:37.6	And this has really caught on with our kids. Like, it's about taking the stairs and not the
1:43.3	escalator. So then we we'll be like we're
1:45.2	being a two percenter and you've got your two percent hat on. So I just love that I mean you
1:52.4	probably couldn't have imagined that that offshoot was going to happen. No, not at all.
1:57.8	So I that all came because so I read this stat a long time ago.
2:02.3	I think I referenced the stat in a comfort crisis.
2:04.3	But it basically found that 2% of people take the stairs when there's also an escalator
2:07.8	available.
2:09.2	Only 2%.
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