Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

This comment on a walking-us fitness YouTube video,

Hi Dave from Vancouver Island.

Last fall I heard you being interviewed on the Real WW Talk podcast every day since September 25th. I've been walking a minimum of 10,000 steps.

Love listening to your podcast during my evening walks. I have a lot to catch up on, so sometimes

I listen to three as I'm walking. I used to have quite a bit of foot pain, but since I've been walking daily,

it is almost completely gone. That's what I want to camp on during our 10 minutes together,

and that is how walking can help alleviate pain. By the way, I'm not a doctor. There's nothing in this

podcast that should be taken as specific medical advice for you. So I want to talk about, let's see,

I've got six, six types of pain that walking can help alleviate.

If you are experiencing pain, don't take this as,

oh, there's my prescription.

I want you to talk to your doctor,

because while walking can help alleviate pain,

you also don't want to be in a situation where walking makes it worse.

One of the things that walking does, particularly if you're walking consistently,

with a little bit of intensity, walking can release endorphins, which are the bodies feel-good

chemicals. So even if you're not in pain and you're out walking, again, a little bit of

intensity, and you get those endorphins

it's like oh this feels good I love this but those endorphins can also help with alleviating

the pain so I want to start with number one and that is arthritis and there's research to back

this up that walking can help alleviate arthritis pain.

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