Why Am I Walking?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A comment on Facebook got Dave feeling a little nostalgic...and then feeling a little tension. He explains during today's ten-minute walk.
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| 0:00.0 | Why do you do this? Why are you walking right now? What's your motivation? What's your purpose? What is it you're trying to accomplish? |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness |
| 0:21.2 | promise you made yourself. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, I'm Dave. |
| 0:24.4 | I started walking for fitness in 2013. |
| 0:27.2 | Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:36.4 | So if you're a brand new listener, you probably haven't heard |
| 0:39.4 | this story. If you've been listening for a while, I'll try to keep this concise. But I mentioned |
| 0:43.9 | that I started walking for fitness in 2013. Before that, I had actually been a runner. I started running |
| 0:50.4 | in 2008. My health was trending in a direction. My health and weight were trending |
| 0:56.7 | in a direction that I didn't like and decided to get serious about fitness and started with |
| 1:04.9 | running because that's what my wife was doing. And it seemed like an effective way to |
| 1:10.2 | exercise and get fit. And I did that for five years, |
| 1:13.9 | ran a bunch of events, five case, 10ks, half marathons, ran one marathon. And then in 2013, |
| 1:21.4 | the radio station where I work offered every employee a Fitbit. They were wanting to motivate us towards a healthier and more |
| 1:32.2 | fit lifestyle. And since it was free and I was a runner and the goal that I thought everyone was |
| 1:38.1 | supposed to get was 10,000 steps. And I figured I was crushing that every single day. I said, |
| 1:43.3 | sure, I'll take the fitbit because there |
| 1:44.8 | was also some competition involved. Each month, the person who got the most steps would win a little |
| 1:50.7 | prize. And if you were among the top three stepers in the company at the end of the year, you got |
| 1:58.6 | some extra vacation time. And I was all about that. So I said, sure'm running got that fitbit and on the first day went out for my run figured I crushed 10,000 steps and was shocked to see that not only had I not crushed it I was still a long way away from it it was like oh oh this is a little bit harder than I thought it was going to be. |
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