When The People You Love Don't Want To Walk
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It's hard when people we love don't want to walk. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave offers a perspective on this.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk. |
| 0:10.0 | If you are listening to this podcast, the likelihood is that you are walking alone. |
| 0:16.0 | You're not walking with someone other than you and I are walking together. |
| 0:21.6 | And this may be exactly how you want it, |
| 0:25.6 | exactly the way you like it. |
| 0:28.6 | You prefer walking alone. |
| 0:30.6 | You prefer doing this thing, this walking fitness activity solo. |
| 0:39.5 | But I also recognize that for some, |
| 0:44.3 | not only is the preference to walk with someone else, |
| 0:50.3 | but the people that you're closest to, |
| 0:52.7 | the people that you love the most, the people that you would want to walk with the most, they're not interested. |
| 1:03.2 | They don't want to walk with you. They don't want to walk at all, other than walking to get from point A to point B if I have to. |
| 1:16.4 | And that can be a painful place. |
| 1:18.9 | In fact, I know I'm thinking specifically of two people in my world who would love for the people in their world to want to walk with them. |
| 1:39.2 | And I know that that can be a painful place. |
| 1:43.1 | So let's talk about this situation. if you have people in your life that don't want to walk, |
| 1:51.8 | but you would love for them to join you. |
| 1:55.7 | And even if they don't join you, you would love for them to be more active to to be intentional about walking |
| 2:03.2 | to move more number one you can't force them I mean that's the low-hanging fruit |
| 2:09.6 | we know that you can't make someone commit to exercise you can't make |
| 2:15.6 | someone commit to fitness to a healthier lifestyle you can't make someone commit to fitness, to a healthier lifestyle. |
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