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Walking is Fitness

Have You Tried Walking Sticks?

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8597 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Walking sticks can supersize the benefits of walking. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about those benefits and also talks honestly about why he hasn't tried walking sticks yet.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:09.0

Susan has a question, could you address walking sticks?

0:12.0

They keep balance and improve posture when I use them correctly.

0:17.0

Susan, thanks for the question.

0:19.0

And yes, I could address walking sticks, the benefits of using walking sticks.

0:23.6

But before I jump into that, to be honest, to be authentic, I need to tell you that I've never used walking sticks.

0:34.6

I'm aware of the benefits of walking sticks. They've actually done a couple of

0:39.2

episodes about this. It's been a while. So I'm going to do it again. But I've never used

0:45.3

walking sticks. And there are several reasons why probably, well, probably the most important

0:52.5

reason is I don't have any. But that could easily be addressed. reason is I don't have any.

0:57.1

But that could easily be addressed.

1:02.8

The reason I don't have any, the reason I've not pursued walking sticks that I've not used walking sticks is because it feels awkward.

1:08.1

I'm not someone who likes to draw attention to themselves. It's a fire truck that just

1:15.2

passed a bit louder than normal. By the way, in case you're wondering, I'm walking along,

1:19.9

I usually don't tell you precisely the road that I'm on, but today I will. It's Shine Avenue

1:24.0

in Myrtle Beach. It's in the Market Common District.

1:29.9

And this used to be the old Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.

1:34.2

And when the base was closed in the 90s and sold and redeveloped into a community.

1:41.9

But a lot of the old Air Force base structures are still here, not all of them,

1:50.0

and probably the most recognizable I'm walking past right now,

1:53.0

which is why I mentioned Shine Avenue.

1:55.0

It's at that corner of Shine and Mustang, and it's a building, it's a tall structure that this used to be the parachute drop and they

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