How We Can Reduce The Risk Of Falling
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Falls can be life changing. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about ways we can reduce the risk of falling. You'll also hear a clip from a recent conversation from Dr. Courtney Conley who's an expert about foot, ankle, and calf strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about how walking can help reduce the risk of falling. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you |
| 0:13.0 | with a little added motivation, encouragement even, to get out, take the walk. |
| 0:18.0 | And I believe even more importantly than just one walk, it's to build |
| 0:23.0 | a life-changing walking habit. |
| 0:26.1 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:32.4 | You ever heard of the reticulating, activating system? |
| 0:37.3 | It's a part of our brain that causes us to focus on something. |
| 0:41.3 | For example, we have a Toyota RAV 4. |
| 0:45.3 | And it has a unique color. |
| 0:47.3 | It's kind of a greenish gray. |
| 0:49.3 | I think the name of the paint color is lunar rock, |
| 0:53.3 | moon rock, moon, that, something like that. |
| 0:56.0 | Anyhow, since we bought that vehicle in that color, I see Toyota RAV-4s that look just like ours everywhere. |
| 1:09.0 | Had never noticed it before we bought the car. But now that we have it, |
| 1:14.6 | the reticulating activating system part of my brain is like, oh, they're all over the place. |
| 1:20.0 | The same thing has been happening with regards to people falling. And it started, just like |
| 1:27.3 | with the whole car color thing, it started when we bought the car |
| 1:32.0 | this started a handful of months ago when eva was out running and she fell now this is the |
| 1:40.9 | third or fourth time that she's fallen while either running or walking in the past five |
| 1:47.6 | years or so. And the culprit in her case is a lingering result from the accident she was in. Her right leg |
| 1:58.0 | took most of the damage in that accident and as a result, her right leg took most of the damage in that accident and as a result her right leg is weaker |
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