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Walking is Fitness

Eighteenth Century Fitness

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8597 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Exercise was promoted in the eighteenth century, but using different words. During today's ten-minute walk in Colonial Williamsburg, Dave shares what some of the medical experts were saying about fitness more than 250 years ago.

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk.

0:09.0

Today in Colonial Williamsburg, in fact the next few days here in Colonial Williamsburg,

0:14.0

and if you've been listening for a long time, you might even be thinking to yourself,

0:20.0

weren't you just in Williamsburg?

0:22.5

It was in Williamsburg earlier this year. It is a restored 18th century town so you can visit and

0:30.6

kind of sort of see what life was like in the 18th century. Right now I'm walking along Duke of

0:36.9

Gloucester Street, which is the main drag

0:39.3

through colonial Williamsburg. In fact, as I'm walking, I'm looking straight ahead to the

0:44.3

Capitol building, one of the iconic buildings here in Williamsburg. Some of these are actually

0:50.0

buildings that were here in the 18th century. Others are recreations. In fact, up here on my left

0:57.7

is a coffee shop, an 18th century coffee shop, which when they started, and it's a new building.

1:05.7

So it wasn't here in the 18th century, but it's a recreation of what a coffee shop was like in the 18th

1:10.6

century. I was really excited. It's like coffee shop was like in the 18th century.

1:11.1

I was really excited. It's like, oh, I love me some coffee shops. Well, coffee shops in the

1:16.3

18th century were different than they are here in the 21st century. So it is not a place where I can

1:24.4

just go and get coffee while I'm here.

1:28.2

It is early in the morning, so as I'm walking, I don't see anybody else, which is kind of typical.

1:34.6

I do see a car that's now turning on Duke of Gloucester.

1:38.3

And typically during the day, cars are not allowed.

1:41.5

There's no vehicle traffic here on Duke of Gloucester because this street will be filled with people walking up and down, talking, going into some of the exhibits.

1:51.5

And I'm passing the coffee shop now on my left and have almost reached the Capitol building.

1:58.4

One of the things, even I used to come here every year, which is one of the things

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