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Walking is Fitness

This Is How Many Steps Could Lengthen Your Life

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

There's new research about how walking could give you some bonus years. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares the encouraging numbers.

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay consistent with fitness.

0:07.0

How are you enjoying the time change?

0:09.0

Been almost a week now.

0:11.0

Still getting used to the sun rising an hour later.

0:16.0

Most mornings, in fact, every morning I'm up before the sun is up, and I'm out walking and recording in the dark.

0:26.1

Same with today.

0:28.9

But a couple of times this week, I have found myself a little bit later in the morning when it's still dark feeling, oh, oh, right, right. Yeah, we moved the clock. That's why it's still

0:40.8

dark, because it's usually light. But Dave and I are loving the extra hour of daylight in the evening.

0:49.0

There was some research that was released this week that was actually pretty amazing. Don't know if you

0:53.3

saw it. And this was a massive amount of research involving one million people

0:59.0

between 2013 and 2023.

1:03.0

So no one will complain about the sample size.

1:07.0

And the question on the table, and I don't know if this was research where they were actually looking to answer this question, or as they were going through the research, this question was like, oh, look at this consistent theme.

1:20.7

Let's focus on this for a bit. It's all about increasing lifespan.

1:26.4

So if you go online, if you want to, you can check out what your

1:32.3

life expectancy is. Based on your age now, what is the average life expectancy from this

1:40.3

point moving forward? And there are also tools online that can actually drill down and get very specific

1:46.0

based on genetics and lifestyle,

1:50.0

and you can get a more focused life expectancy that's almost designed for you.

1:55.0

Of course, these are not guarantees.

1:57.0

There are no guarantees.

1:59.0

Based on the average expectancy, I've got 20, 20 plus years remaining.

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