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Walking is Fitness

Am I Too Old For This?

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8597 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When is too old to start walking for fitness? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave tackles this question and looks at some underlying reasons why it's even being asked.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

0:07.0

So let's go for a walk.

0:09.2

One of the questions that I see every now and then, and maybe it's not framed quite this

0:16.0

way, but there's an undertone of this attitude and that is and I'll frame the question this way

0:26.2

am I too old to start pursuing fitness am I too late to the fitness game and I've even done episodes about this in the past.

0:40.9

Of course, the answer is no.

0:42.9

One of my favorite stories involved,

0:45.4

I think he was 103 years old.

0:48.2

It was a man who was living in an assisted living facility.

0:52.7

And he had a daily newspaper, which was delivered, I guess, in the

0:57.5

common area or the lobby, and he wanted to be able to walk and get his paper. I don't know if

1:04.7

other people had been bringing it into his room, or if he had been in a wheelchair and he was

1:09.7

wheeled out there. I don't know what those circumstances were, but at the time, he was not able to walk from his room to the place where the newspaper was delivered and then back to his room with the paper so he could read it.

1:27.7

103 years old.

1:29.8

And he wanted to be able to do that.

1:32.0

I guess he had done that before.

1:34.9

Not I guess.

1:35.4

I'm sure he had.

1:36.6

He had done that before and over time lost the ability to do it.

1:43.5

Again, 103 years old.

1:46.0

Is it too late to start?

1:48.0

Well, he said, no, it's not too late to start.

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