How Walking Counteracts The Dangers Of Sitting
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Walk with dave for ten-minutes as he tells about a recent meeting that went too long...which reminded him of the current research on sitting too much.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast could help save your life. |
| 0:11.1 | Sort of. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome to walking is fitness. |
| 0:14.8 | This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that |
| 0:19.7 | fitness promise you made to yourself. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. |
| 0:28.6 | I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:34.6 | It is early as I'm walking. Sun has not yet risen above the horizon. I've got |
| 0:41.5 | early daylight and I'm probably about 10 or 15 minutes away from sunrise. The temperature is |
| 0:49.7 | already warm. The humidity feels like it's hovering around 115%. |
| 0:55.0 | It's muggy. |
| 0:56.0 | And of course, once the sun is up, it is going to feel even hotter and stickier, and that's okay. |
| 1:04.0 | But I think if I'm being truthful, I'm glad I'm getting an early start. |
| 1:10.0 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 1:11.5 | Recently, I was in a work meeting, one of those virtual meetings, you know, Zoom meetings, |
| 1:17.5 | except this actually wasn't on Zoom. |
| 1:19.4 | We use Microsoft Teams. |
| 1:21.8 | I thought the meeting was one hour long and went into it with that expectation. |
| 1:30.0 | I was wrong. |
| 1:31.7 | The meeting was actually scheduled for 90 minutes, |
| 1:35.6 | but went an hour and 45. |
| 1:40.8 | I don't do well sitting. |
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