Now What?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a walking goal is reached? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares a comment from Mike about the importance of goals to keep moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the big question for me, am I going to regret this choice? |
| 0:07.5 | Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness. |
| 0:10.0 | This is a daily podcast helping provide you with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk. |
| 0:15.7 | And today's 10-minute walk starts after this. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm kind of sort of walking through the woods. |
| 0:33.4 | There's actually pavement here, which will make it sound like I'm not walking through the woods. |
| 0:41.3 | Old Access Road from the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base no longer used but there are woods around this access road lots of trees lots of bushes and potentially a lot of mosquitoes |
| 0:52.3 | there are times when I walk through here and a lot of mosquitoes. |
| 1:03.0 | There are times when I walk through here and it's like I'm swatting them off, one right after the other. |
| 1:08.0 | And at the moment, I think I'm okay. |
| 1:17.4 | I think I'm okay. It's a pretty pretty place to walk and I really love walking back here, but I As much as I love walking back here, I do not love swatting the mosquitoes off. So one of the first videos I posted on the walking as fitness YouTube channel is titled Five Things I Learned Walking 20,000 steps every day for two years. |
| 1:33.3 | It's actually two and a half years, 20,000, at least 20,000 steps every day. |
| 1:38.3 | Didn't miss a single day. |
| 1:40.3 | And so the video is all about five things that I learned doing that for two and a half years. |
| 1:47.0 | Mike leaves this message after watching the video. |
| 1:52.0 | Congrats on not only accomplishing this, but recognizing that it had served its purpose and knowing that it was time to move on to new challenges. |
| 2:01.2 | He's talking about the day that I decided to end that streak, that fitness chain. |
| 2:08.6 | Curious how you felt on the first day when you did not reach 20,000. |
| 2:15.6 | I would imagine that it was a bit of an emotional day. I've always been a goal |
| 2:21.9 | setter and I find the hardest part can be when the goal is met. There seems to be a void if I don't |
| 2:30.9 | replace it with a new goal. I do 10,000 steps a day, non-negotiable, and I'm |
| 2:37.4 | currently working on a two-year strength training goal that culminates on my 60th birthday in |
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