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Walking is Fitness

The Gift Of Fitness

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Is it OK to give someone a gift that encourages fitness? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave looks at both sides of this question and comes up with an idea while walking.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself and

0:07.0

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

0:11.0

I was trying to remember exactly when this happened. I think it was six, six, seven years ago.

0:30.9

I had, I got my very first Fitbit on January 2nd, 2013, and fell in love with that device,

0:42.3

provided more fitness motivation than I've ever experienced in my life and became a bit of an evangelist for Fitbits. It's like, you should have a Fitbit. This is great. You should set a step goal. This is awesome. This will change your life.

0:49.3

I was at Target and I was trying to find a gift for my daughter, my oldest daughter.

1:00.7

And I walked past the display for the step trackers, primarily Fitbits.

1:08.4

And I stopped and I looked at the Fitbit, and I thought,

1:13.6

she will love this.

1:18.1

Because my daughter was at the time,

1:21.3

she was a new mom, she was pursuing fitness.

1:24.3

She wanted to keep her fitness capacity going, and she wanted to keep her fitness capacity going and she wanted to you know I'm not really sure

1:33.5

what her motivations were as I'm saying this I'm like I don't really know why she was doing she was

1:39.3

she was running she was primarily running she would run in an occasional events, 5Ks. I think she did.

1:46.7

Did she do a half marathon? But she had done that before becoming a mom and was still doing it

1:54.3

to some extent even after becoming a mom. Anyhow, probably shouldn't have venture down that trail

2:00.4

because as I think back,

2:02.6

it's like, I don't know what her fitness motivation was. I just knew that she was pursuing it to some

2:07.9

degree, and I saw the Fitbit there in the display, and I thought she would love this. And so

2:12.9

bought her the Fitbit, and on Christmas Day, gave it to her as a gift her face lit up and she loved it

2:20.3

I think she loved it almost as much as I did because she put that thing on began walking 10,000

2:26.7

steps even built a 10,000 step fitness chain that lasted for months and then you know they would

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