Do You Really Need 10,000 Steps?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
10k a day seems like the default walking goal, but is it really necessary? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave reacts to a recent email and shares some research based numbers.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, |
| 0:07.0 | and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:10.0 | Another early morning walk for me. It is quiet, of course, as I say that, traffic drives by. |
| 0:18.0 | As the weather is warming up, temperatures, by the the way this morning here in Myrtle Beach, |
| 0:24.6 | South Carolina, I think they're normal, it's comfortable, almost no wind. |
| 0:30.6 | But as the temperature is slowly warming up, I'm wondering as I'm out here walking well before sunrise when I'm going to start |
| 0:41.4 | seeing other folks out walking, usually not cycling so much, but running. Often see people out running |
| 0:52.9 | trying to beat the heat of the day. Of course, now, the heat of the day really isn't terrible. |
| 0:59.0 | It's more when we get into the summer months. |
| 1:03.0 | And to run later in the day is really hard here with that heat and humidity. |
| 1:11.6 | And a lot of folks will head out early in the morning to try to beat that. |
| 1:16.6 | And I expect to start seeing those runners pretty soon. |
| 1:19.6 | But to this point, still been not many. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm guessing that most of them understand and recognize the power of sleep in recovery. |
| 1:32.7 | Same with walking. |
| 1:35.0 | Sleep is a powerful part of the whole fitness equation. |
| 1:38.8 | By the way, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. |
| 1:42.1 | This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. |
| 1:47.3 | I want to circle back to an email that I received. It's probably been, and look at that, |
| 1:53.4 | there's someone who's actually riding a bike. He's on the other side of the street, riding on the sidewalk. |
| 2:04.1 | I want to circle back to an email that I received. |
| 2:08.0 | I guess it's been more than a month from a listener named Lorraine, who was discouraged. She walked, I don't know how many steps one day, |
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