Learning From Gary's Example
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Gary is inspiring others to walk more. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares Gary's story and what we can learn from him.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent. Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk. |
| 0:11.6 | Gary left this comment to a walking his fitness YouTube video. Gary writes, I'm 77. Started walking |
| 0:19.1 | six months ago for 20 minutes. Mo moved up to an hour a day. |
| 0:23.6 | I shoot for 10,000 steps per day. I feel better now than ever during the last 15 years. |
| 0:31.6 | And then as an encouragement to others, he simply writes the word walk in all capital letters. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm going to take the time during our 10-minute walk today and unpack what Gary has said. |
| 0:48.8 | There's a lot of valuable stuff in here in Gary's comment in Gary's example actually and I want to unpack |
| 0:56.7 | that six things number one Gary started at 77 sometimes I think as we get older |
| 1:03.6 | we start thinking we start adopting the mindset that I'm too old for fill in the |
| 1:09.3 | blank I'm too old for fitness I'm too old for fill in the blank. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm too old for fitness. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm too old for learning something new. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm too old for trying this. |
| 1:24.0 | And our world can get smaller because we keep throwing this. I'm too old for at opportunities. Gary started walking at the age of |
| 1:36.4 | 77. He didn't say, I'm too old for this. I'm too old to start a fitness journey. I'm too old for this. I'm too old to start a fitness journey. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm too old to impact my health. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm too old to make a difference in the aging trajectory of my senior years. |
| 1:58.0 | He didn't say that. He just started. And I love that. This is bigger than |
| 2:04.2 | fitness. This idea of, I'm too old. Or in Gary's case, I'm not too old. I'm going to get after |
| 2:14.3 | it. I'm going to start doing this. That's a question as I age. I'm going to get after it. I'm going to start doing this. |
| 2:20.8 | That's a question as I age. |
| 2:23.5 | I'm a little further behind, Gary. |
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