Lots of benefits to walking faster, but exactly how do you do that?

How do you start walking faster?

Welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Lots of research these days coming out, talking about the benefits of walking, how many steps

you should be aiming for, and the long-term physical health benefits when you reach that

number consistently day after day, week after week, month after month. But at the same time, we're also seeing

quite a bit of research that indicates the pace at which we walk, how fast we're walking,

can also increase those benefits. There are additional benefits if you walk faster. You can

drop the risk, lower the risk of cardiovascular disease by walking faster.

You can burn more calories if you walk faster.

And then my favorite, all-time favorite study is the one that indicated by walking faster, you can actually lower your biological age by as much as 16 years.

This doesn't mean that you're going to live 16 years longer, which I guess is a possibility.

There's the chronological age that we celebrate with the number of candles on the birthday cake,

but there's also the biological age that we celebrate with the number of candles on the birthday cake, but there's also the biological

age that our bodies can actually be younger or older than our chronological age. And this research

indicated that those who consistently walk faster biologically can lower their age by as much as 16 years.

So if you are 50, your biological age could be 34.

I love that research.

Jim sent me an email.

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