Can I Take A Day Off?

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

There's value in resting. There's also value in pushing through. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave explores both sides to this question of taking a day off.

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0:00.0	Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another
0:09.7	link to your growing fitness chain.
0:12.9	It is pre-sunrise.
0:14.8	Three months ago, I would have been walking in full daylight.
0:21.6	The impact of the days getting shorter and we still have several more months of this time change,
0:28.6	shortening daylight, less daylight to get in a walk.
0:33.6	But we'll adjust.
0:35.6	We always do. Question for you. Can you take a day off? Can I take a day off?
0:44.8	We make this fitness promise to walk every day. We keep that fitness promise. We build a growing
0:53.5	fitness chain. But at some point, the question will arise, can I take a day off? Is it okay to take a day off?
1:07.8	And of course, if we have history of fitness failures, having made fitness goals, maybe New Year's resolutions to exercise more, and those goals didn't last, we feel the shame of fitness failure.
1:24.6	We feel the shame of having taken not just a day off, but the entire thing
1:32.3	off. We set it aside. Maybe if you're wired like me, it's kind of a passive aggressive
1:39.1	setting it aside. Things come up and you don't even think about it and then at some point down the road it's like
1:45.9	oh right yeah i had that goal i had that promise to myself oh well so this question can i take a day off
1:57.3	feels heavy let me state right up front of course you can of course you can of course you can take a day off by heavy. Let me state right up front, of course you can. Of course you can take a day off.
2:04.5	By the way, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for education
2:10.5	and entertainment purposes only. But of course you can take a day off. That's a question for you and you alone to decide.
2:21.1	There's value in taking a day off. There's also value in pushing through. Welcome to walking is
2:29.4	fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness
2:35.2	promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave, today's 10-minute walk, powered by my Shox headphones.
2:43.3	These are cordless, open-ear headphones that I've now been using for several years. They're
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