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Walking is Fitness

A Winter Walking Mindset

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Cold weather adds another layer of difficulty to keeping a fitness commitment. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about developing a winter walking mindset.

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0:00.0

Today's 10 minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent.

0:07.0

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

0:10.0

One of the advantages of living in South Carolina, specifically Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,

0:15.0

is that the winters are milder.

0:18.0

That doesn't mean that we don't get cold weather.

0:20.0

We do. We've even had snow here.

0:22.6

Since Ava and I moved four years ago from Maryland, that snowfall was maybe a half inch,

0:28.6

and it was melted after a couple of hours, but it was beautiful as it was coming down.

0:35.6

And reminded me that's actually something that I miss from Maryland.

0:41.3

But it still gets cold and there are still days when the weather, the temperature, the wind chill,

0:52.3

is such that I'm a little less motivated to open that door and head out.

1:00.5

And so actually at the moment, hang on, I need to open my umbrella because one of the, I guess, advantages or disadvantages of South Carolina winters instead of snow,

1:16.0

we get rain. That's the precipitation, cold rain. We have a friend who also lived in Maryland,

1:25.0

recently moved here to South Carolina.

1:28.3

And a few days ago, we had a really cold day,

1:33.3

and we were lamenting, this isn't why we moved,

1:36.3

500 miles south, you know, all of that whiny stuff.

1:40.3

And my friend admitted that he had not been outside his house the entire day.

1:49.0

Inside, which was heated, he put his ski cap on, had a thick hoodie, and he basically hunkered down.

1:58.7

He's not a fan of cold weather.

2:04.0

And he said, I'm not leaving the house unless I have to. Do you ever feel that way? Do you ever use weather as a reason not to take the walk?

2:15.4

Cold weather in particular? Of course, we have listeners, this podcast

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