Reframing The Walk
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When you start feeling like "I HAVE TO WALK" it's helpful to think about the walk differently. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares a comment from Mike and then shares a recent day when he felt the same.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the difference between I have to walk and I get to walk. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little |
| 0:16.5 | added motivation, encouragement even, to get out the door, take the walk, and more importantly to |
| 0:22.7 | keep going to build a life-changing walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:30.8 | If you love Peloton, do we have a podcast for you? The Clip Out. If it's happening in the Peloton universe, earnings call, instructors news, product updates, drama, rumors, we're breaking it down and we also probably broke the story. Not only do we tell you about the news, we analyze it. We tell you why it's important to you and your workouts. We're fans, but we're honest. We celebrate the wins and call out the weird stuff. And we know there's a lot of weird stuff. A lot of weird stuff. So if you can't get enough Peloton, we're the place to go. It's called The Clip Out. And you can get us wherever you got the podcast you're listening to right now. We take the content seriously. Ourselves. Not so much. Mike is a member of the walking friends community on Patreon. |
| 1:16.6 | He also watches most of the walking-as fitness videos on YouTube and often leaves comments, |
| 1:25.6 | very encouraging comments about those videos. |
| 1:29.3 | And here's a comment he left recently. |
| 1:32.3 | And I forget the specific video, but here's the comment. |
| 1:37.3 | Mike says, I have missed a few days of walking for no good excuse this past month. |
| 1:44.8 | And I noticed how missing those walks changes my attitude. |
| 1:49.1 | I need the walks to feel right. |
| 1:55.1 | About a month, month and a half ago, it was a cloudy. I think it was part of a string of cloudy days. Yesterday I talked about how |
| 2:07.1 | cloudy weather saps my motivation, not just for walking, but for a lot of things. There was a |
| 2:14.8 | cloudy, chilly, windy, windy, drippy day, and I made the decision that |
| 2:23.3 | I wasn't going to walk much. It was not going to be a heavy day of walking. |
| 2:30.3 | I think I finished the day with maybe a few thousand steps and I noticed kind of like |
| 2:39.2 | Mike he says I need the walks to feel right I noticed by the end of that day |
| 2:47.6 | similar kind of thing I felt off more often I had at the beginning |
| 2:56.5 | of the day even though it was cloudy chilly drippy windy and all the all the |
| 3:00.7 | things at one point I was really looking forward to not having to get out and take the walk. |
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