A Walking Report Card
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Dave reflects back on 12 years of intentional walking for fitness.
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| 0:00.0 | Walking has been my primary fitness activity for 12 years now. |
| 0:07.0 | And during today's walk, I'm going to give you my report card. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness, a daily podcast to encourage you to create and sustain a habit of walking. |
| 0:21.6 | We'll get started in just a moment. |
| 0:26.6 | Love this message that was actually a comment to a walking-as-fitness YouTube video. |
| 0:33.6 | Very simple. Two sentences. |
| 0:36.6 | Been walking for more than 50 years. I rarely miss a day. |
| 0:41.3 | And walking for more than 50 years, rarely miss a day. |
| 0:48.3 | That inspires me because I think where I am, which at 12 years and to be clear what we're |
| 0:57.5 | talking about here is an intentional walk for fitness for exercise certainly I've |
| 1:04.7 | been walking since about the age of one but in terms of okay this is going to be |
| 1:10.6 | part of my daily routine this is going to be part of my daily routine. |
| 1:12.9 | This is going to be a part of what I do every day. |
| 1:16.4 | This is an investment in my health, that sort of thing. |
| 1:20.5 | It's been 12 years where I've been intentional, where I've been walking like this viewer says, rarely miss a day. |
| 1:32.3 | In their case, 50 years. |
| 1:35.3 | In my case, it's 12 years. |
| 1:38.3 | But 12 years is not a small sample size. |
| 1:42.3 | Let's see, if I did the math, can I actually reach 50 years? |
| 1:47.0 | I started when I was... |
| 1:51.0 | I could, but that'll probably be national headlines. |
| 1:57.0 | 103-year-old still walks every day. I don't know if I'm going to reach 50 years, but here's some thoughts at 12 years. |
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