6. Three Reasons Why You Should Not Walk For Exercise
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Dave believes everybody should walk for exercise. But, there's a small voice that keeps asking him if that's really true.
In this episode, Dave gives that nagging voice the microphone to explain three reasons why you should NOT walk for exercise.
At the end of the podcast, if you believe that you're not in that group, Dave has a free guide to help you get started on a new fitness journey. If you have struggled with making exercise stick, this 30 Day Fitness Challenge will help you start in a way that creates an fitness habit and eventually leads to fitness momentum. You can download your free copy HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. This is one of my favorite things to do. |
| 0:07.0 | I love walking. Love walking in the morning and my passion for walking, I've been doing this now for exercise for more than seven years. |
| 0:17.0 | And my passion for walking has only increased. I love it more today than when I |
| 0:24.8 | started. And for the past two years with my blog, walking is fitness.com, and for the past month |
| 0:32.5 | with this podcast, I've been passionately extolling the virtues of walking and walking for exercise. |
| 0:43.3 | And over the past couple of years, I've heard from many readers and now listeners who feel the same way and absolutely love walking. |
| 0:55.3 | But I got to tell you that every time I sit down to write a new blog article or record a new podcast, |
| 1:04.9 | there's a part of me that wonders, is walking really, really the best exercise for everybody? |
| 1:16.4 | Hi, this is Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a podcast designed to help you walk more and walk |
| 1:25.4 | more intentionally because it really could transform your life. |
| 1:30.7 | The honest answer to that question is walking really the best exercise for everybody is no. |
| 1:38.5 | For some people, it's not the best exercise. |
| 1:42.3 | And so today I'm going to give you three reasons why you should |
| 1:47.5 | not walk for exercise. I'm not saying you shouldn't walk, but there's a difference between walking |
| 1:55.9 | and walking for exercise. And today, three reasons why you should not walk for exercise. |
| 2:02.6 | That said, I do passionately believe that for those who have struggled with |
| 2:09.6 | sticking with exercise, with starting a fitness journey and staying with it, |
| 2:16.6 | I really do believe that walking is the best exercise |
| 2:20.6 | activity to get a new fitness journey started or to restart a fitness journey that's been |
| 2:26.7 | kind of laying dormant for a little while. And I put together a free guide to help you start |
| 2:34.1 | a new fitness journey using your walking |
| 2:36.8 | that will first create a fitness habit. |
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