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Walking is Fitness

How The London Bus Culture Promotes Walking

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Fitness often hinges on the mindset we bring to it. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the London bus culture and how that mindset promotes even more walking.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent.

0:07.0

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

0:11.0

Alright, I want to start by reading you some comments to a walking-as fitness YouTube video.

0:19.0

This was a comment and then a reply to a comment.

0:21.8

And then I've got a reply to both of these comments.

0:25.7

So Ian,

0:28.7

Ian posted the first comment.

0:31.4

Ian wrote, when I was growing up in London,

0:33.8

there was a culture that if you missed a bus,

0:36.1

you'd perhaps walk on to the next stop, as the

0:38.9

fare might be a little cheaper, and the next bus likely wouldn't come along in the meantime.

0:44.0

Or you could take a shortcut and get to the third stop along even cheaper.

0:49.5

That's how I discovered walking was a pleasure, much better than waiting for a bus anyway.

0:55.0

That's great.

0:56.0

And then Linda replied to Ian's comment.

1:02.0

Linda said, oh, I live in the UK.

1:05.0

My husband grew up in London.

1:07.0

He has always told me about the bus thing that they all do.

1:11.6

If you miss a bus and you walk onto the next bus stop,

1:14.6

and if it is not there, you walk on to the next stop.

1:19.6

I've never been to the UK. I've never been to London.

1:22.6

But it sounds like London has a bus culture.

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