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Walking is Fitness

I Don't Have Time!

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This is one of the most mentioned reasons for not pursuing fitness. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave offers five suggestions if you're feeling the fitness time crunch.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

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

0:10.0

I've seen surveys. They've done research, usually in the form of a survey,

0:16.0

asking people, why are you not exercising? Why are you not pursuing fitness?

0:22.6

What are the reasons behind that?

0:25.6

And almost all of the surveys that I've seen

0:30.6

near the top, if not at the top, is I don't have time.

0:36.6

I don't have time. I don't have time. And my take on that is that most of us do have time.

0:48.4

Now I understand, because I'm certainly not walking in, sorry about the pun, certainly not walking in your shoes.

0:55.0

I'm not walking in anybody else's shoes been mine.

0:57.9

And so every analysis of this from me goes through my filter.

1:04.1

And I recognize that there are some people, literally there is no time.

1:10.6

Their schedule is such that there is no time. Their schedule is such that there is no time. But I think most of us, and this certainly is true for me, when I say I don't have time, what I'm really saying is I don't want to.

1:24.6

I have a busy schedule, busy life, and I get a certain amount of time, a little bit of time,

1:31.3

each day where I can choose to do the things that I want.

1:34.3

The rest of my day is filled with things that those choices aren't there or aren't there in a way that I can make them freely.

1:45.0

For example, I could quit my job.

1:48.0

But the consequences of doing that, to get that time for exercise would be pretty steep

1:54.0

and that would be a pretty foolish decision.

1:58.0

So sure, I could make that choice, but it's not realistic. But realistic is, every day,

2:05.1

I have a certain amount of time where I can make choices, where I do have a freedom to do this

2:10.4

or that. And that's where I could exercise. But I've already made decisions to use that time for things that are probably a little more

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