What Gets Measured Gets Improved
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Tracking fitness activities can be valuable. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares a recent YouTube comment about counting steps and how that (for some) can have great value.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you. |
| 0:05.0 | Day Fitness Consistent, so let's go for a walk. |
| 0:08.0 | At the moment, I'm crossing a street, in fact at the moment I'm walking in the middle of a street. |
| 0:15.0 | It's early in the morning and there is nothing coming in either direction. |
| 0:19.0 | So I could keep walking in the middle of the street if I wanted to, but I don't want to. |
| 0:22.6 | What I want to do is walk down this access road that is dark. |
| 0:30.6 | So I have a flashlight with me. Let me turn this on. |
| 0:34.6 | Let me find the button to turn this on. Okay, it's on this side. Is that the button? |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, there it is. I've got to learn to stop having that light pointed at my eyes as I turn it on. |
| 0:49.8 | That is the second time I've done that. Let me turn my light on, so I'm looking at it and temporarily blinded. |
| 1:00.0 | There was a YouTube comment, a comment to a Walking His Fitness YouTube video that I want to share with you. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm actually going to stop walking as I read this. I'm 80 years old, |
| 1:12.3 | and I've walked every day for the last six years. I record my daily steps in a spreadsheet. |
| 1:19.1 | I average 10,500 steps per day. And the comment goes on. The commenter talks about blood pressure, and it's right where I want it to be, |
| 1:30.3 | would like to lose about 20 pounds, and then makes a comment about what I said in the video, the benefits of walking and how true those are. |
| 1:40.3 | What I want to focus on during this 10-minute walk is this line. I record my daily steps |
| 1:49.8 | in a spreadsheet. What gets measured gets improved? That's a quote that is attributed to Peter Drucker, who was a business management expert, wrote some best-selling books. |
| 2:09.7 | The idea is if you're measuring something, you're focused on it, and if you're focused on it, you can improve it. |
| 2:19.8 | And it's more than just simply, I'm thinking about it. |
| 2:23.4 | But the measuring is important. |
| 2:26.5 | In other words, this viewer didn't just say, I think about how many steps I get every day. |
| 2:31.8 | No, he's measuring how many steps he gets every day. He's got |
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