3. The Downside To Walking 20,000 Steps a Day
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
For more than two years, Dave has walked at least 20,000 steps a day. The physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual benefits are tremendous.
But, there is a downside. And, it's probably not what you think it is. In this episode Dave reveals "the price" he's had to pay walking this many steps.
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| 0:00.0 | I love this time of day. Just before the sunrise, early daylight, birds are awake. |
| 0:13.0 | The sky is blue, a few clouds with an orange, reddish hue. It's my favorite time of day to walk. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, I'm Dave, and this is walking is fitness. |
| 0:26.6 | I believe that walking is exercise hiding in plain sight, really with some intentionality |
| 0:31.6 | and some added intensity. |
| 0:33.6 | You can transform both your health and your life. This week, the downside to getting 20,000 |
| 0:41.3 | steps a day. Yep, 20,000 steps a day. It's my goal. Has been for two years. I am not suggesting |
| 0:48.2 | or recommending that it be your goal, but it is my goal. The benefits of exercise are tremendous. There are health |
| 0:58.2 | benefits, better cardiovascular health. There's actually a decrease. Research is shown a decrease |
| 1:05.0 | in some cancers with regular exercise. And walking, walking has a particular benefit that no other form of |
| 1:14.9 | exercise can boast, and that is improved creativity. Yep. So I've been doing the blog for two |
| 1:25.8 | years, and this week's podcast, the downside to getting |
| 1:30.5 | 20,000 steps a day, is actually the most popular article I've ever written. I guess folks want |
| 1:36.9 | to know, what's, what are the problems with walking as much as you do? You think you know what |
| 1:43.7 | the downside is? |
| 1:45.0 | Well, you'll find out in just a moment. |
| 1:48.0 | Hey, if you have struggled with making fitness a regular part of your lifestyle, |
| 1:54.0 | the problem might be in how you start. |
| 1:58.0 | A lot of us, we realize that exercise needs to be something we're doing, |
| 2:04.4 | and we get all fired up, we're excited, we're motivated, and we get going, and within usually |
| 2:12.0 | a couple of weeks, it's done. That grand plan that we had to transform our life is now on the sidelines and nothing has changed. |
| 2:26.8 | But if you begin small and you establish a habit, you can actually create a fitness lifestyle that sticks. |
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