How Many Steps?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how different activities produce different step counts? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares some numbers from a research paper produced by St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself |
| 0:08.0 | and is adding another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:14.0 | Most of these walks that we take together, on my part, it's pretty early in the morning, |
| 0:19.0 | usually before 6 a.m. this morning, a little bit after 6. |
| 0:25.2 | And often, and I even comment on this, I rarely see someone else out here. |
| 0:31.9 | Just a moment ago, there was someone out running who passed me on the other side of the street. |
| 0:36.2 | It's like, oh, another fellow early morning fitness fanatic. |
| 0:42.3 | I wonder if, like me, he wakes up without an alarm. |
| 0:46.3 | I can't remember the last time I used an alarm. |
| 0:50.3 | I wake up without an alarm, usually around five, sometimes 5.30. |
| 0:59.0 | Every now and then, I don't like these mornings, but every now and then I'll wake up at 3.30. |
| 1:07.0 | I can't fall back to sleep. And I'm not someone who can lay in bed for a long period of time |
| 1:14.5 | and it's like, okay, I'll give myself two hours to go back to sleep. Usually after about a half |
| 1:20.5 | hour, 45 minutes, I'm thinking, yeah, this isn't working. And I just get up. |
| 1:27.9 | That's what Charles Dickens used to do now. |
| 1:29.4 | He had insomnia. |
| 1:31.5 | I don't know how long he would lay in bed, but he would, after a while, |
| 1:35.2 | it's like, I'm not doing this anymore. |
| 1:37.2 | He'd get up and he'd walk around the streets of London. |
| 1:41.5 | Do you have a Fitbit? |
| 1:42.7 | Do you have a step tracker? |
| 1:44.1 | Do you track your steps? Do you know how many steps you get |
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