Not All Steps Are Equal
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
They all count the same on the step tracker, but are they really? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave makes an analogy from the paint rollers sold at the bix box stores to the steps on his Fitbit.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, |
| 0:07.5 | and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:12.6 | I was out walking yesterday afternoon and saw something that stopped me dead on my tracks. |
| 0:18.1 | We have a lake behind our community. It has a paved trail that actually goes around the |
| 0:24.7 | lake. At one point, and this trail is probably, I'm guessing, seven, maybe eight feet wide. And again, |
| 0:35.0 | it's paved. And at one point along the trail I notice this stream this line of ants |
| 0:43.3 | from one side of the trail to the other again eight feet long and it wasn't just one or two ants |
| 0:51.3 | it was it had to be hundreds. |
| 0:55.0 | In this thin line across the trail, some were going from left to right, others were going from right to left. |
| 1:03.0 | They were on mission. I have no idea what the mission was, but they were on mission. And I'm watching them. And I'm trying to |
| 1:13.6 | figure it out. On one side of the trail, to the left, there was what looked like a large ant hill. |
| 1:20.9 | These were probably fire ants, so I wasn't going to go playing with them. So I saw the ant mound on the left side, but on the right side, |
| 1:30.3 | I couldn't figure it out. There was a slight bank embankment down to the lake. I admired their |
| 1:39.2 | discipline. I admired their work ethic. Back and forth, back and forth, hundreds of ants. |
| 1:47.0 | That walk, by the way, contributed to about 18,000 steps on my Fitbit. |
| 1:54.0 | I've been counting steps since I got my first Fitbit in January 2013 and my perspective on that number that's on my Fitbit has changed over the |
| 2:08.1 | years. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra |
| 2:14.6 | motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 2:20.3 | That Fitbit, as I've said many times, really fueled my fitness journey. It supercharged |
| 2:28.3 | it in ways that I didn't anticipate, didn't expect. Once I started counting steps, it added a level of competition, |
| 2:37.8 | not only with others, but primarily with myself. I was competing with myself, challenging myself, |
| 2:44.3 | setting step goals. Sometimes they were reasonable, sometimes I was really pushing myself. |
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