Most Common Excuses To Not Walk
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
During today's ten-minute walk, Dave looks at the biggest reasons people say no to walking.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself, and |
| 0:09.0 | we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:13.0 | Beautiful pre-sunrise morning as I walk here in Myrtle Beach. |
| 0:19.0 | This is one of those mornings where I was up really early. |
| 0:24.1 | And instead of laying in bed, I was like, well, let's go. |
| 0:29.6 | No sense laying here, I'm not going back to sleep. |
| 0:32.4 | And so here I am and the moon is providing a nice light on where I'm walking. |
| 0:41.8 | So I don't even need a flashlight. |
| 0:44.5 | It's very nice, very nice. |
| 0:48.1 | So have you ever given yourself an excuse to not pursue fitness, to not walk, maybe to not even fulfill your |
| 1:00.3 | fitness promise, if something comes up and well, I can't do it today. You give yourself an excuse, |
| 1:07.2 | you give yourself a reason, or maybe even bigger picture than that. |
| 1:12.4 | At some point when you were contemplating fitness, I need to get healthier, need to start |
| 1:17.6 | exercising, and I can't right now. And you have a reason why. But I think in the smaller picture, all of us have had those days |
| 1:32.4 | or moments where we're faced with the choice of walking or not walking, and we say no. And we have a reason. |
| 1:43.9 | We have an excuse. We're going to look at some of the most |
| 1:47.9 | common excuses to not walk and a bonus excuse that I never would have thought of, but they've |
| 1:55.5 | actually done research and have discovered that, yep, people choose not to walk because of this. |
| 2:04.1 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness. |
| 2:06.8 | This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. |
| 2:13.9 | Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 2:15.2 | So these are the most common excuses to not walk. Why people say, nope, not going to do it, at least not going to do it today. |
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