What Are The Barriers To Walking?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Dave talks about a recent survey asking people what prevents them from walking for fitness.
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| 0:00.0 | What barriers do you have that prevent you from walking? |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome to walking is fitness. |
| 0:12.1 | This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself. |
| 0:18.7 | Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging |
| 0:23.6 | about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:30.6 | Beautiful morning in South Carolina, but the temperature is below normal, and as you can probably tell it's a little windy so |
| 0:41.2 | wind chill is a part of the weather vocabulary for this day and no I am not rocking the |
| 0:47.9 | shorts I have caved I've got long pants on got the ski cap on but but I am comfortable. I am enjoying my walk because I'm not being stupid |
| 0:59.7 | about it. There was a neighbor last year who said, you know you're a South Carolina resident when |
| 1:06.4 | you wear shorts year round. It's like, oh, okay. Yeah, it's too cold. The AARP recently did a survey about |
| 1:14.9 | exercise, particularly walking as a fitness activity, asked a bunch of questions. One of those |
| 1:19.8 | they asked, and I found this fascinating. For you, which of the following are barriers to walking? |
| 1:25.9 | So today, I want to mention some of these answers and then some observations |
| 1:29.7 | that I have. The number one answer, probably no surprise, 37 percent chimed in and said the weather |
| 1:35.6 | is a barrier that prevents them from walking, which of course makes sense. Some weather is absolutely |
| 1:41.9 | gorgeous inviting you and I to head outside and take a long, |
| 1:45.5 | long walk and other days the weather's not only not an invitation, it feels like a stop sign. |
| 1:53.0 | And of course there are times when the weather is actually dangerous. I recognize that. |
| 1:59.0 | But more often than not, it's not the danger. It's that it's just uncomfortable. |
| 2:05.4 | I've heard it said that there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad weather gear. In other words, |
| 2:11.4 | there is clothing that for most weather conditions make getting outside at least doable. |
| 2:20.7 | Now, of course, there are situations where the weather is dangerous and not advocating that you |
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