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Walking is Fitness

Why I Take The Stairs

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Embrace the stairs. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the benefits of avoiding elevators and escalators.

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0:00.0

Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself.

0:07.0

And we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

0:12.0

I'm starting the walk today. It's early, early morning for me.

0:18.0

And I've been out for just a bit and I'm in a really dark area not a whole lot of

0:26.6

ambient light and I'm actually walking towards a road that has a sidewalk and on that

0:35.6

sidewalk there are lights and I'll be able to see where I'm

0:40.7

going. But starting, walking a little bit slower, looking around, making sure that there's not

0:48.3

something that I can trip over. height variability is one of the things that can be a trip hazard.

0:55.0

And I'm just about at the road.

0:59.0

I will cross the road and walk on the other side and now I've got lights.

1:05.0

This is nice.

1:07.0

I don't think you can do this anymore. Walk to the top of the Washington Monument,

1:13.6

I think it's free to get to the top, to go to the top.

1:17.6

There's always a long line, you have to reserve your ticket.

1:21.6

If I understand it correctly, now when you go to the top, you take an elevator.

1:29.7

Years ago, you could actually take the stairs.

1:34.1

You could walk up to the top of the Washington Monument.

1:37.8

And those stairs were very narrow and they were very steep.

1:42.1

If I'm remembering correctly, because I think,

1:44.7

this was decades ago when I did it.

1:48.6

It's one of the advantages of living as close to D.C. as we did.

1:52.9

Got to see almost all of those tourist attractions multiple times.

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