Using Walking To Restore Energy
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
It feels counterintuitive, but walking is actually helpful when we're tired. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about how he is rethinking a daily step goal for more energy.
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| 0:00.0 | So I am rethinking my daily step goal. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to walking is fitness, a daily 10-minute |
| 0:09.7 | podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation, encouragement even to get out, |
| 0:15.0 | take the walk, and to build a life-changing walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. If you love Peloton, |
| 0:25.8 | do we have a podcast for you? The clipout. If it's happening in the Peloton universe, |
| 0:31.1 | earnings call, instructors news, product updates, drama, rumors, we're breaking it down and we also |
| 0:36.8 | probably broke the story. Not only do we tell you about the news, we analyze it. We tell you why it's important to you and your workouts. We're fans, but we're honest. We celebrate the wins and call out the weird stuff. And we know there's a lot of weird stuff. A lot of weird stuff. So if you can't get enough Peloton, we're the place to go. It's called |
| 0:55.3 | the clipout and you can get us wherever you got the podcast you're listening to right now. |
| 0:59.2 | We take the content seriously ourselves. Not so much. |
| 1:05.4 | I want to start by talking about the impact that walking has on our energy. Number one, when we start walking, when we start moving, |
| 1:14.6 | it gets the blood flowing which delivers oxygen to our cells, |
| 1:19.6 | and there's a pretty immediate impact of that. |
| 1:23.6 | Number two, movement, exercise, walking helps the body produce more mitochondria. And |
| 1:32.6 | mitochondria, as I understand it, is a significant source of energy, of our body's energy. And so when |
| 1:42.8 | we're walking, we're producing more mitochondria, giving us more |
| 1:45.6 | energy. This one is more of a long play. You do this consistently, more mitochondria, more energy, |
| 1:51.7 | not necessarily instantaneous, as I understand it. Why am I talking about this? Well, at 65, almost 66, I am beginning to grasp a hold of the reality that I have less energy now than I did when I was younger. |
| 2:14.6 | Now this is not some energy cliff that I've fallen off of and |
| 2:19.5 | I'm like ooh what's going on here? I didn't feel this way last week. It's actually not that |
| 2:27.2 | as much as what I'm enjoying doing more and that is sitting. |
| 2:35.0 | Interestingly enough, when Walking as Fitness got started, it was a blog, not a podcast at the beginning, |
| 2:44.0 | and the most popular blog post on the Walking is Fitness website by far is the post titled the downside of walking |
| 2:57.1 | 20,000 steps a day. I wrote this maybe seven years ago. It might have been eight. So it's been a while. |
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