The Definitive Guide to Walking

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Grok walked a lot. Heck, he walked everywhere. Riding animals didn’t appear until after the agricultural revolution, so unless you buy into the ancient aliens theory, you accept that our paleolithic ancestors relied on self-ambulation to get around. It seems pretty plausible to suggest that we’re probably well-adapted to walking on a regular basis. I’d even go so far as to posit that walking might even be highly beneficial to our health and well-being. Given our extensive history with the activity, you might even say our genes “expect” us to walk.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)

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0:00.0	The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.
0:14.0	The definitive guide to walking.
0:18.0	At first glance, this title probably threw you off. I mean, a guide to walking?
0:23.6	Are we moderns really that dysfunctional that we can't even walk correctly? Come on, Sisson,
0:29.6	you must be out of ideas. Bear with me here. It may seem silly to need a definitive guide to walking,
0:36.6	but I think we do.
0:38.3	First off, walking is no longer necessary for basic everyday survival.
0:44.3	There are expectations, of course, but for the most part, the average person reading this blog can get by just fine without walking more than a couple hundred yards each day.
0:55.0	Whether via buses, trains, cars, bikes, or delivery vehicles, you're not going to starve or die of thirst just because you don't or can't walk.
1:05.0	I'll argue that walking is an essential human activity that we ignore to our ultimate detriment, but millions of
1:13.0	people do exactly that and think nothing of it. Progress? In a wider societal sense, sure,
1:20.5	but on an individual level, people still need to walk. Second, because walking is no longer necessary, we, the general inclusive, we,
1:32.0	not necessarily the Vibram-clad elite, have forgotten how, when, where, and why to walk. Our technique
1:40.2	is shot. We lack proper scope. A mile sounds daunting. And we don't even think to make
1:47.0	time for regular walking for walking's sake. And walking is seen as the last resort to be employed
1:53.2	only when the tires busted, the train isn't running, or the bus is late. Kids don't walk home
1:59.3	from school anymore, what with all the lurking pedophiles,
2:03.2	and people hop into the car to run down to the corner market. I don't always like to pull the
2:10.2	Grock logic card because it doesn't always apply to our current situation. Here though, yeah,
2:16.5	it makes sense, so pull it, I shall. Walking is our bro situation. Here, though, yeah, it makes sense. So pull it, I shall. Walking is our
2:21.5	birthright. The weird way we humans do it, obligatory, upright, hands free to wield tools and
2:28.6	weapons, harsh sunlight coming down on us from an angle instead of head-on, relatively generous glutes making
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