Would You Still Walk Today?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Lots of data indicates exercise is helpful to our immune system...including some new research linking physical activity to less severe COVID symptoms. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave ponders about an even stronger motivation to walk today.
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| 0:00.0 | By the end of today's episode, if you think that what I am trying to communicate is this. |
| 0:11.5 | Walk every day and you will never get really, really sick, then I have failed. |
| 0:17.0 | 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. |
| 0:24.6 | Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013, still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:45.8 | All right. I know you have been waiting. You've been hanging on the edge of your seat for this update. |
| 0:53.1 | The weather yesterday turned out exactly like the forecasters predicted. They were forecasting a beautifully sunny day with mild |
| 0:57.1 | temperatures and that's what we got. A little breezy earlier in the day. As the afternoon progressed, |
| 1:04.2 | the winds died down, the temperature picked up. Eva and I took advantage of that. Nice long walk |
| 1:10.5 | through town and it was one of those |
| 1:13.5 | after the clouds and the rain that we've had here for a while. It was one of those |
| 1:20.3 | afternoons that caused us both to go, ah, it was nice. |
| 1:32.7 | And today looks like it might be more of the same. |
| 1:38.3 | I'm out here really early, very few clouds in the sky, |
| 1:41.8 | and it is a beautiful morning for a walk, |
| 1:46.0 | and I hope where you are, the weather is equally to your liking. Kaiser Permanente is a massive healthcare provider in the United States. |
| 1:51.0 | They looked at patient records, 194,000, actually more than 194,000 adult patients between January 2020 and May 2021, patients who had COVID. |
| 2:04.4 | And they assess their activity levels using two questions that they have used since, I think, |
| 2:11.3 | 2008, 2009. Those two questions, number one, on average, how many days per week do you engage in moderate, |
| 2:21.3 | distrenuous exercise, like a brisk walk? And the second question, how many minutes do you engage |
| 2:28.6 | in exercise at this level? And then they analyzed all this data and discovered something pretty remarkable, |
| 2:37.0 | but not entirely surprising. And that is those who did less than 10 minutes of moderate, |
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