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Walking is Fitness

Why I Park In The Back Of The Lot

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today's ten-minute walk starts in the car as Dave explains why he always parks in the back of the lot.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk, helping you keep your fitness promise, and adding another link to your

0:12.4

fitness chain, your growing fitness chain, is starting in my car.

0:19.6

I've had a FitBid now for more than 10 years, got it in early 2013.

0:24.6

And I was so excited about having a step goal.

0:29.6

I set my first step goal at 10,000 steps.

0:33.6

Because I wasn't the only one who had a Fitbit, it was a growing trend, it was a popular

0:40.3

thing at the time, still is. But there are quite a few articles on the media talking about

0:49.3

how you can get more steps, the value of walking. And most of those articles that talked about the value of walking

0:57.9

and how you could get more steps always included the recommendation, if not number one,

1:05.9

usually in the top five, to park in the back of the parking lot, which I started doing. Started parking in the back of the parking lot, which I started doing.

1:11.6

I started parking in the back of the parking lot.

1:14.6

Anytime that I went somewhere, went shopping, went to a ball game, whatever, wherever there was a parking lot,

1:23.6

I would park in the back of the parking lot because that's what you needed to do to get 10,000 steps.

1:30.1

Then I started thinking through, what is this actually doing when I park in the back of the parking lot?

1:40.2

Fast forward a bit. In 2018, I began a blog all about walking and I'm out of traffic

1:50.8

light now and I have one of these engines that turns off when I come to a stop.

1:58.5

And so I'm waiting. The traffic lights here in Myrtle Beach, well, not this one.

2:04.3

Tend to take a really long time.

2:08.0

And I guess because it's still early in the morning.

2:12.8

All right.

2:13.2

So anyhow, we're going to try an experiment.

2:16.5

We're going to do a real-time experiment here.

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