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Walking is Fitness

Is Walking Really Exercise?

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This is a question many ask. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave provides an answer and some insight as to why it's even asked.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself

0:07.0

and will add another link to your growing fitness chain.

0:12.0

Today was one of those days where I woke up earlier than normal.

0:17.0

I tend to get up pretty early, but this was even earlier than normal, about an hour earlier than I usually wake up,

0:24.6

and thought, well, maybe I'll fall back asleep and did not.

0:29.6

Laid in bed probably for maybe 30 minutes and then finally decided, I'm just just gonna get up drink my

0:42.2

half bottle of water and then head out earlier than usual and so here I am and I'm

0:52.1

out well before sunrise.

0:59.0

I don't even see a hint of early daylight off to the east.

1:03.0

And I'll be honest with you, I'm hoping that

1:10.0

waking up super early today doesn't make me feel tired for the rest of the day, which is a possibility that could happen.

1:11.8

It has happened.

1:13.5

What I'm hoping happens is that getting an extra early start on the day with a walk will make me even more productive today that's what I'm hoping for that

1:34.2

would be a pretty good outcome to why am I awake I want to be awake, but sometimes it happens.

1:47.0

One of the questions that I get every now and then that I hear every now and then about walking is this question of, is it really exercise?

1:58.0

Is walking really exercise? Is walking really exercise?

2:02.6

Have you ever asked that question?

2:06.6

Maybe even before you made the commitment to pursue fitness using walking,

2:12.6

you even wondered, but is it really exercise?

2:16.6

Shouldn't I be going to the gym or running? Is walking really

2:23.4

going to do it for me? Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing

2:31.4

a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

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