How Fast Must You Walk For It To Be Exercise?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
During today's ten-minute walk, Dave discusses the importance of your walking pace and what reaches the level of "exercise" according to the CDC's recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, thanks for joining me for our 10-minute walk together today. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action because we are walking together. |
| 0:14.0 | If you are looking for a podcast that will entertain you, or educate you, or inspire you. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm not sure this is it. |
| 0:24.6 | Because I'm not the most entertaining guy in the world. |
| 0:27.6 | Instead, we're taking a 10-minute walk together, |
| 0:30.6 | holding each other accountable for creating and maintaining |
| 0:34.6 | a lifestyle of fitness. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 0:38.3 | Yesterday, now before I tell you how many steps I finished with, |
| 0:43.3 | you need to understand a little context here. |
| 0:48.3 | We are in a weather pattern now in South Carolina that is stunning. The temperatures are mild, even approaching warm. |
| 1:02.5 | The sky has been crystal blue. The mornings crisp but not cold, very comfortable as I walk right now. The evenings have been, again, |
| 1:16.7 | crisp, not cold, very comfortable. So it's just, it's really perfect weather to get out and |
| 1:23.5 | walk. And one of the reasons why Abe and I moved to South Carolina was because we wanted |
| 1:28.5 | a location that was activity friendly. And this is it. And the weather is activity friendly. And |
| 1:38.7 | we're just taking advantage of it. So with that said, yesterday almost 29,000 steps. I know, a little gaudy. |
| 1:50.1 | So there was a long walk in the morning, which is how I begin every day. And our time together is the first |
| 1:56.9 | 10 minutes of that walk. When I finished up working in the afternoon, |
| 2:04.5 | Ava and I took a walk. |
| 2:07.4 | And then she had to go out in the evening, |
| 2:10.9 | and I could either sit in my comfortable chair in my home office |
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