When You Have No Motivation
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This can be a difficult season emotionally...which can also drain motivation. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares a recent experience and what made the difference.
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| 0:00.0 | There's an aspect to what I'm going to talk about today that the research, in my |
| 0:10.5 | opinion, at least what I've seen, totally overlooks, and it's important. |
| 0:17.9 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. |
| 0:27.4 | Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now. I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:40.2 | Before we get into what I want to talk about, I need to be really clear that I'm not a doctor, |
| 0:47.0 | not a licensed personal trainer, not a licensed therapist or psychologist. This podcast is for |
| 0:53.4 | education and entertainment purposes only. This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. |
| 0:57.7 | This can be a really hard season for a lot of people. I'm not referring to the holiday season. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm referring to if you're in the northern hemisphere winter. |
| 1:09.0 | Recently, I had a work meeting, and one of the things we do at the beginning of the meeting |
| 1:13.9 | is we go through the past week since we last met, and each participant takes a moment |
| 1:23.1 | and talks about a personal high from the last week, a personal low, a business high, and a business |
| 1:33.0 | low. One of my coworkers was honest in talking about the personal low. He said, the days getting |
| 1:41.9 | shorter is really hard on him. |
| 1:45.5 | And he said the previous week, referring emotionally, he said he was in a ditch the entire week. |
| 1:52.8 | It was just a really hard week. |
| 1:56.4 | And I know others who have felt the same impact and they even use those sun lamps. |
| 2:02.7 | You spend some time every day sitting in front of this sun lamp. |
| 2:08.6 | It's called seasonal affective disorder. |
| 2:13.1 | One of the benefits of exercise and walking for exercise is the impact that it has on depression. |
| 2:22.3 | And there have been quite a few studies, including a recent study, massive study, and they concluded that if you exercise, and by the way, in terms of defining walking as exercise, CDC says, |
| 2:37.0 | if you're moving at between three and four miles an hour, it's a moderate level physical activity |
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