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Walking is Fitness

I Hope To Walk Again

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This is what a listener recently expressed in a comment. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares this person's circumstances and also asks Bruce a question he's been wondering about for awhile.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, this was a sad comment.

0:05.0

Probably in the multi-year history of walking as fitness, this would certainly rank up there as one of the saddest.

0:15.0

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute walk to help you find a little motivation to get out and take the walk to stay consistent.

0:26.6

I'll share this message during today's 10 minute walk, which gets started after this.

0:47.3

Shortly after I left the house, I saw two people, one, two, who were out, good morning, how are you, who were out walking for fitness, and other than the cyclist who just rode by I'm walking

0:58.2

on a sidewalk that actually allows me to see a lot I can see far behind me I can

1:06.0

see far ahead of me I can see a cross street and I'm it I'm the only one out here at the moment

1:13.6

so here's here's the message and this was to one of the walking his fitness

1:18.6

YouTube videos as a new amputee I miss walking just let that sink in for a moment.

1:32.3

The emotion of what this person is experiencing right now.

1:39.1

We've got a new permanent way of doing life as a new amputee.

1:47.0

And then among other things, an experience that this person is not able to have at least right now and certainly in

2:02.5

the way that they were used to it I miss walking I hope to walk again I have

2:09.6

figured out a lot of things in my life by walking alone so this person has a

2:17.3

rich history of walking a rich history of walking, a rich history of using walks as an

2:24.6

opportunity to think through life, to think through challenges and perhaps facing the biggest challenge of this person's life, he or she doesn't

2:41.5

have the opportunity to take the walk and to figure out, to process, how this is going to roll. This was Ava's experience after her accident.

2:53.6

Now it was not a permanent injury, but she was in a wheelchair for two months.

3:01.6

In the first month of recovery, she had very little energy.

3:05.6

It's amazing.

3:06.6

How many calories the body burns as it is healing and recovering from an accident and the

3:13.8

surgeries that came after that accident.

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