Is This The Final Benefit Of Walking?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Walking has a lot of benefits, but Dave wonders if there's one benefit that doesn't get talked about. The final benefit.
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| 0:00.0 | Is this the final benefit of walking? |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation |
| 0:13.0 | to get out the door, take the walk, and keep going to build a life-changing walking habit. |
| 0:19.0 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:25.6 | I saw something on TV recently that got me thinking about the final benefit of walking, |
| 0:30.6 | the last benefit, and there are a ton of benefits of walking, |
| 0:35.6 | most of which I have discussed over the last four and a half years of doing this podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | Significant health benefits, lowering the risk of an early death. |
| 0:47.3 | And a lot of those things that lead to an early death, heart disease, stroke, heart attack, |
| 0:52.3 | lowers the risk of type 2, diabetes, |
| 0:55.8 | lowers the risk of dementia, |
| 0:59.0 | lowers the risk of certain cancers. |
| 1:02.3 | There are brain benefits. |
| 1:04.8 | When we're walking, we are thinking better. |
| 1:08.1 | We can be more creative. |
| 1:09.5 | There's more clarity more focus the emotional |
| 1:13.2 | benefits tamping down anxiety it helps manage stress it helps process |
| 1:21.6 | frustration and anger and if our pace is strong enough it can also release endorphins the bodies |
| 1:31.3 | feel-good chemicals tons of benefits and those probably are not well they're |
| 1:35.9 | not those are not all the benefits of walking but I saw something on TV that got me thinking about the final benefit, the last benefit of walking. |
| 1:52.0 | And the seed for this idea was actually planted last year. |
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