2. Five Lessons From Walking 20,000 Steps Every Day
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
For a full year, Dave walked 20,000 steps every day without taking a single day off. Some days were easy. Some were hard especially after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.
In this episode Dave shares five lessons he learned during his 20k One Year Step Challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Hi. I'm at the radio station. It's before we go on the air this morning, |
| 0:11.5 | and I'm in the upstairs part of the building, which is empty, which is good, because this is where I warm up my voice every morning before we go on the air. |
| 0:21.6 | I learned a long time ago that if I don't take some time before we open those microphones |
| 0:27.6 | and warm up my voice, I'm going to pay for it. |
| 0:31.6 | And I used to do this sitting down in my office and then realize, well, I don't have to remain sitting. |
| 0:41.9 | And since nobody else is actually there's one other person, but he's downstairs, there's |
| 0:45.9 | nobody upstairs. And it's a great loop around some cubicles and I'll walk and I will, me, me, me me me me I'll do that for a little bit and then |
| 0:59.1 | I sing amazing grace a bunch of times and no no not going to do that for you right now because I |
| 1:06.3 | don't want to ruin the song hi this Dave. Welcome to walking is fitness, helping you transform your |
| 1:16.1 | life by being more intentional about walking because I believe that walking is fitness hiding in |
| 1:22.7 | plain sight. So when I started this blog, I also started a very public challenge walking 20,000 steps |
| 1:31.2 | every day for an entire year with no days off. I called it the 20K one year step challenge. |
| 1:38.8 | So I did the 20,000 steps every day and then we'd post an update on Facebook and Instagram |
| 1:43.6 | with how many steps I got |
| 1:45.3 | the previous day as well as a picture taken at some point during the day and a caption. |
| 1:54.6 | And I did this public 20K1 year step challenge for a couple of reasons. One, it held me accountable. |
| 2:00.7 | And then every day say, hey, here's how I'm doing. challenge for a couple of reasons. One, it held me accountable. And then every day |
| 2:01.8 | say, hey, here's how I'm doing. There's a level of accountability there that's pretty, pretty |
| 2:07.3 | crazy. The other thing is I wanted to demonstrate that you could walk that much and still have a life. |
| 2:15.1 | This week on walking as fitness, five lessons, the five lessons from walking |
| 2:21.3 | 20,000 steps a day. So as I got close to the end of that one year step challenge, I think I might |
| 2:27.5 | have been two or three weeks from the finish line. I started to get reflective, which is what I do. And I thought back over the whole |
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