What About Those Who Have Jobs That Require A Lot Of Sitting?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Sitting a lot is dangerous according to research. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave responds to someone who asked this question.
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| 0:00.0 | I recently got a provocative question that I will attempt to answer today with sensitivity. |
| 0:07.8 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness. A daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you |
| 0:14.5 | with a little added motivation to get out the door and take the walk. Today's 10-minute walk is actually going to start with a bonus |
| 0:24.6 | cold weather walking tip that really works. |
| 0:28.6 | We'll get started right after this. |
| 0:34.6 | Things have changed yesterday the meteorological, meteorological, got to get that right, meteorological |
| 0:42.5 | first day of winter, did not feel like winter here in Myrtle Beach, today it does. I am layered up. |
| 0:48.8 | I've got a couple of hats on, warm socks, gloves, and just before I left the house I remembered some advice that my |
| 0:58.2 | wife Eva gave me last winter when she initially told me this I was skeptical |
| 1:03.8 | tried it and instantly it was like oh this makes a much bigger difference than I expected. |
| 1:13.0 | Tuck your shirt in. |
| 1:14.4 | You will feel warmer than I did before I left, and I actually feel pretty good. |
| 1:20.7 | So recently, someone who watched one of the Walkingness Fitness YouTube videos left a comment |
| 1:26.6 | that's provocative and |
| 1:29.9 | in answering the comment i want to be sensitive so the video the danger of walking 30 minutes every day |
| 1:38.7 | and the point of the video really is about the danger of sitting, prolonged sitting. |
| 1:47.0 | And there's actually research indicating that if you exercise, or even 30 minutes a day, |
| 1:55.0 | and then sit for the rest of the day, and that's your lifestyle, that exercise isn't going to have the impact |
| 2:04.5 | that you think it will so the danger isn't necessarily the 30-minute walk the danger is the |
| 2:12.9 | mindset thinking that that one 30-minute walk will protect you from a full day of sitting. |
| 2:21.3 | Some even in the comments to that video said, the title is clickbait. |
| 2:27.3 | I pushed back a little bit and said, no, not clickbait. |
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