Five Things People Get Wrong About Walking
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Most people never give walking a second thought, but when they do they're probably wrong. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about five things most people get wrong about walking.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's go for a walk. |
| 0:10.9 | I want to talk about five things that we get wrong about walking. |
| 0:17.1 | Five things that people get wrong about walking. And I'm going to start with a low-hanging fruit. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm going to start with the most obvious. And that is walking isn't exercise. That's what a lot of |
| 0:29.6 | people believe. Walking isn't exercise. I would even say that most people believe that. |
| 0:35.9 | Walking is an exercise. And they're wrong about that. Here's a thing. |
| 0:40.3 | I understand why many people feel that way, believe that, because most walking isn't exercise. |
| 0:49.9 | What the experts tell us, if you're moving with some intensity, |
| 0:55.0 | and they say about three miles an hour, if you're going three miles an hour, |
| 1:00.0 | means you can walk a mile in about 20 minutes, |
| 1:05.0 | and you're doing that consistently, well, it's exercise. |
| 1:09.0 | And there are all kinds of benefits that come from consistent exercise, long-term benefits that come from consistent exercise. |
| 1:18.6 | And so when we make the decision to walk as a fitness activity and eventually we've got some intensity behind it. |
| 1:28.0 | We're moving at three miles an hour or so. |
| 1:31.6 | And by the way, if you're just getting started brand new to this, |
| 1:35.5 | you're probably not going at three miles an hour. |
| 1:38.2 | You're just building the habit. |
| 1:41.3 | You're just getting up. |
| 1:42.8 | You're moving for 10 minutes, maybe five minutes, maybe even one minute. |
| 1:48.0 | One minute done at the same time every day can build a habit, which can really be a |
| 1:54.0 | tremendously powerful way to begin fitness. |
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