Today's 10-minute bonus walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave. Yep, bonus walk, second walk of the day. Hope you heard the episode from earlier

today, how walking slower helps you burn fat faster. You heard that right. How walking slower helps you burn fat faster.

You heard that right.

How walking slower helps you burn fat faster.

Here's what I want to talk about during this bonus walk.

How this podcast can help you change your life.

So let's dive in.

The British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2023 looked at 196 peer-reviewed articles that covered

more than 30 million people.

That's a pretty large sample size. And here's what they discovered.

The people who did 75 minutes of moderate intensity exercise each week,

and by the way, walking three to four miles an hour is considered moderate intensity exercise.

That's not a power walk, but it's also not a grocery store pace.

Three to four miles an hour, 75 minutes a week, at a 23% lower risk of an early death.

And I know a lot of times we talk about these risk reductions,

particularly reducing the risk of an early death,

and it can feel very abstract.

I think one of the ways that we can make it feel a little more real is think about, say, the last

couple of years. What would you have missed? What would you have not experienced? What family

memories would you not have been a part of? Would you not have enjoyed if you weren't here?

I think that's one way to make this idea of reducing the risk of an early death a little more concrete,

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