Walking For Recovery
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Walking can be a significant part of recovering from injury or illness. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares some observations as he's watched Ava recover from some serious stuff and how walking played a role in that.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever heard the term movement is medicine? |
| 0:05.0 | Today I want to talk about one of the powerful benefits of walking as medicine. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking is fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you |
| 0:20.0 | with a little added motivation to get out the door and take the walk. |
| 0:23.8 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:34.1 | Today I want to talk about a benefit of walking that I've not personally experienced, |
| 0:42.3 | but I've had a front row seat watching someone else experience this. |
| 0:48.3 | And because of that, because of what I've seen, I want to talk about some lessons that I've learned about |
| 0:55.8 | the best way to to use walking as medicine in this particular way so we're going to |
| 1:02.4 | start with a comment from a walking-as fitness YouTube viewer the video was |
| 1:09.5 | titled is titled the mind- Bending Benefits of a Slow Walk. |
| 1:14.9 | And here's the comment. I've had the super flu for four weeks. I'm battling to get back into |
| 1:22.3 | my daily walks. Interestingly, or maybe ironically, one of the benefits of a slow walk that I actually did |
| 1:31.1 | not mention in this video is how walking can help you recover. Recover from an injury, recover from an |
| 1:41.0 | illness. I should also mention that I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. |
| 1:47.6 | This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. Since I've started walking as my |
| 1:55.7 | primary fitness activity, gratefully, I've not had an injury or an illness that has sidelined me for more than a |
| 2:06.8 | couple of days. |
| 2:08.6 | So I've not experienced firsthand this idea of walking to recover, whether it's recovering again from an illness or an injury. |
| 2:20.8 | That said, I've had a front row seat watching my wife, Eva, do this multiple times. |
| 2:28.3 | There was the time where she had a condition known as osteo-necrosis in her knee, |
| 2:35.0 | essentially her bone was beginning to fall apart. |
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