I've got a question for you today. How many of these seven walking trends have you tried?

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and I believe even more importantly,

keep going to build a life-changing walking

habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. So yesterday I shared the comment from a viewer

on YouTube who walked two and a half miles in a cold rain and how inspiring that was, not only to me, but I'm sure to everyone who saw her, although their first reaction might not have been inspiration.

So I've got rain, obviously. It's not cold, we'll call it cool, but not in the

groovy sense, and I will not be walking two and a half miles. But there's

something about walking in the rain that if I'm in the right mood, is really

enjoyable and today I'm in the right mood and really enjoying this.

So I want to talk about seven walking trends.

I'll describe briefly each one and then maybe a thought and a question, have you tried any of these?

How many of these have you tried?

What has been your reaction to these trends?

And maybe some of these trends are now part of your regular walking routine.

So number one is Japanese walking, sometimes referred to as Japanese interval walking.

Essentially the way this works is you walk fast for three minutes, fast in that it's hard for you to hold a conversation.

Then you slow down for three minutes then you repeat that cycle and you do that

five times fast three minutes slow three minutes and you do that cycle five times it's a total

30 minute workout the experts recommend you do it three to four times a week. So this would not be your

regular daily walk. It might replace your regular daily walk several times a week. I have done this

once. Once? Once? Actually, and the first time I did it, I recorded it in real time for the walking

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