Top 3 Reasons Why People Quit Exercise
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the three biggest reasons why people stop exercise. He also throws in a bonus reason that he was surprised didn't make the list.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's do this. Let's walk. Let's walk together for 10 minutes. Welcome to walking is fitness. |
| 0:10.4 | This is a podcast of action because that's exactly what we are doing. We are walking together for 10 minutes, |
| 0:18.3 | holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness. |
| 0:22.6 | This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit Plan. |
| 0:25.6 | The hardest part of fitness is actually getting started and keeping it going. |
| 0:31.6 | And the key to that is first establishing a fitness habit. |
| 0:36.6 | And on average, we think it takes about 30 days. |
| 0:40.3 | Not really. |
| 0:41.3 | Research has indicated the average person needs about 66 days to establish a habit, |
| 0:48.3 | and some of us need even longer than that. |
| 0:51.3 | So the key is starting in a way that is sustainable for at least 66 days. And the |
| 0:58.6 | stepfit plan will help you set the right starting goal so that you can first establish that |
| 1:04.2 | habit, which leads to fitness momentum and on to fitness transformation. The stepfit plan is free. |
| 1:11.7 | It is yours and it is effective. |
| 1:15.2 | Go to walking as fitness.com. |
| 1:18.1 | Click the, check out the resource page. |
| 1:20.5 | There's also a link in the show notes for this episode. |
| 1:24.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 1:24.8 | It is another cold morning in South Carolina, but gratefully this morning, |
| 1:31.7 | the wind seems to be calm. And so that is both good news for me and you, for me. I don't feel |
| 1:42.3 | that wind chill for you. You don't feel that wind chill for you. |
| 1:48.5 | You don't hear that wind through our entire 10-minute walk. |
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