How Walking Calms Anxiety
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Walking has an amazing calming affect. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about why this happens.
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | It is one of those beautiful winter mornings here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. |
| 0:17.0 | And I don't mean necessarily the way it looks. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm out before sunrise. As best I can tell, more clouds than not. What makes this morning beautiful is, I'm going to stop for a moment. Can you hear it? |
| 0:46.3 | You probably can't hear anything, which is exactly the point. It's not windy. |
| 0:55.1 | How are you feeling right now as you're getting ready to walk? Maybe you've been walking for a bit and you just turned on the podcast. |
| 1:02.6 | Do you ever have days where you feel anxious, where you feel anxiety, |
| 1:09.2 | days where you feel stressed, days where you feel frustrated, |
| 1:11.6 | days where you feel anger. |
| 1:14.6 | Of course, it's a rhetorical question. |
| 1:17.6 | The answer is we all have those days. |
| 1:23.6 | Walking is one of the best things we can do when we're feeling negative emotions, when we're feeling anxiety, when we're feeling anger and |
| 1:31.4 | frustration and stress. By the way, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. |
| 1:38.6 | This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. |
| 1:44.6 | But this isn't just my assessment. |
| 1:46.8 | This is the assessment of many experts |
| 1:50.6 | over a long period of time. |
| 1:52.2 | They've done research, they've done studies, |
| 1:54.4 | and they actually know the reasons why, |
| 1:56.8 | at least as best as we can, understand the human body and the human mind and understand the reasons why this is so, |
| 2:06.6 | that taking a walk calms anxiety. |
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