When The Walk Turns Negative
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What happens when walking gives you more space to focus on the negative? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares a comment from a listener who struggles with this.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you're going to fall in love with. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. It has become a cloudy morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. |
| 0:14.0 | Temperature is comfortable, the winds are calm. I don't think it's expected to stay this way. |
| 0:19.0 | We've got some rain that is supposed to be |
| 0:22.9 | arriving later, probably not while we're out walking, or at least while I'm out walking, |
| 0:28.2 | which I hope is the case because I didn't bring an umbrella. But the sky has pretty quickly thickened up with clouds. |
| 0:40.3 | When I started I could actually see some blue sky. |
| 0:43.3 | When I left the house, there was some blue sky. |
| 0:46.3 | And now it's mostly cloudy. |
| 0:49.3 | So there's no question. |
| 0:50.3 | Is it partly sunny, partly cloudy? |
| 0:52.3 | Nope. |
| 0:53.3 | Now it is mostly cloudy. |
| 0:56.0 | Sonore says, unfortunately when walking, I find myself not relaxing and freeing my thoughts, |
| 1:05.0 | but cycling over negative things, like being lonely, that this probably will not change, and that this probably will not change and that this probably will not change. |
| 1:14.6 | In other words, being lonely, that's probably not going to change. |
| 1:17.6 | Same when I ride my bike. |
| 1:19.6 | This only stops when I'm training at higher intensity, you know, which is understandable. |
| 1:25.6 | You start pushing yourself and now you're focused on your breathing and how uncomfortable |
| 1:30.3 | it is and you forget everything else. |
| 1:33.3 | But cycling at a normal pace, walking at a normal pace, you don't have those diversions, |
| 1:41.3 | distractions, and so you can sort of be in your own head, be in your own thoughts. |
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