Health Regrets In Retirement
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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An eye opening survey of retirees is what Dave focuses on during today's ten-minute walk.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love. |
| 0:10.1 | I am not yet retired. I'm in my mid-60s. So retirement is very much on my radar screen, |
| 0:18.5 | and I spend a lot of time reading books, listening to podcasts, watching videos, |
| 0:25.4 | because I want that season of life to be successful. I want to have a successful retirement. |
| 0:31.5 | I want to enjoy retirement. One of the blogs that I subscribe to is the Retirement Manifesto. |
| 0:39.3 | It's written by a guy named Fritz. I think it's Fritz Gilbert. |
| 0:45.3 | And I discovered this probably five, six years ago. Fritz was not yet retired. He was working towards retiring early in his 50s, I think mid-50s. |
| 0:57.6 | And so the blog was all about what he was doing to prepare for that, |
| 1:01.0 | the actual retirement, going through retirement, |
| 1:04.4 | how he felt about that in the months that followed him retiring, |
| 1:07.8 | and now a handful of years into retirement, |
| 1:10.7 | what that journey continues to look like. |
| 1:13.1 | He recently published a blog about retirement regrets. |
| 1:19.4 | And let's see, the number one regret was not saving enough money. |
| 1:24.4 | The number two regret starting Social Security too early. |
| 1:28.2 | Number three, retiring with too much debt. And The number two, regret starting Social Security too early. Number three, |
| 1:34.1 | retiring with too much debt. And then number four, retiring too soon. Number five is the one that I want to talk about during our walk today. And that is not prioritizing health. And so this research that |
| 1:42.3 | Fritz is digging into 81% of those who are retired, 65 years old and older, they say their health could be better. |
| 1:57.2 | 46% say they don't have any goals for aging well, talking about physically here. |
| 2:04.3 | 27% say they ignore exercise advice from their doctor. |
| 2:11.1 | 30% believe they would visit their doctor less frequently if they exercised more. |
| 2:22.3 | But here's the number that I want to camp on for the rest of our walk together. 66%, two-thirds, wish they had taken better care of their health when they were younger. |
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