Here's what's happening during this walk that you and I are taking. Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk

every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10

minutes. So I thought, because I've talked about this often, but not in one episode. There tends to be different

episodes talking about a different benefit of walking, a different health benefit of walking.

And there's been a lot of research that's come out lately indicating here's what happens

when you take even a 10-minute walk.

These health outcomes are possible.

And every time a new study comes out, I'm breeding it.

I'm trying to understand it so that I can talk about it as we are walking together.

And I thought, you know, there's been a ton of stuff that's come out,

probably in the last year or so.

So why not do an episode?

Why not take a walk and recap all the benefits of a short walk?

So that's what we're going to do today.

The benefits of a 10 minute, 11 minute, or 12 minute walk from research that primarily has come out within the last year, although some of it might be a little bit older than that.

So two of the most recent pieces of research, and again, these are massive studies. This one, this one got huge headlines,

that a 10-minute walk every day will lower your risk of an early death by 23%. They also discovered

that a 10-minute walk once a week improved outcomes from COVID.

Research has also discovered that a 10-minute daily walk improves cognitive performance and memory,

cognitive, fancy word for your brain, what your brain does, thinking.

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