The Impact Of Walking On Blood Pressure
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Today I want to talk about the impact of walking on blood pressure. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with added encouragement, even motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and more importantly, to keep going, to build a life-changing, life-lasting walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. I am on my back porch with a box I just got from Topo Athletic. These contain my new shoes. The ST6, these are minimal shoes. Wide toe box, all the Topo Athletic shoes come with a wide toe box. My shoes have a zero drop. This is part of a journey I've been on to make my feet stronger, to move towards a more minimal shoe. With Topo Athletic, they've got shoes for every need, minimal shoes, maximal cushion.
They've got road shoes, trail shoes. recovery shoes, race shoes. Alright, let's open the box. And there's a box inside the box. And these are nice looking. and very light. Very light. Pull the inserts out. Try them on. Boy, I can feel the difference the wide toe box makes instantly. By the way, Topo Athletic, brand new sponsor of Walking is Fitness. You can check them out. Again, TopoAthletic.com. You can do your shopping online. You can also see where you can pick up Topo shoes at a retailer near you. All right, leaving the back porch. Walking in and yeah, this wide toe box makes a huge difference. So I'm gonna be wearing these and I'll give you an update shortly. In the meantime, check them out, Topo Athletic, T-O-P-O, Topoathletic.com.
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Okay, so today's walk is starting with something really, really cool. Can you hear the jet? That is, I guess it's an F-16. It's one of the fighter jets. I'm walking near the Myrtle Beach International Airport. And from time to time the military uses the airport for training. They do what they call touch and goes. Sometimes they don't even touch. They come in for a landing and just before they land they power up and take off. And I'm wondering if that jet is doing some training. Anyhow, did not know that was gonna happen until literally I pressed record and this F-16 is taking off in front of my eyes. It's the unexpected pleasures of walking. So it's been about five years now. Around this time of year, although I think it was in July, not August.
I had a doctor's appointment and like most appointments they took my blood pressure and for the first time ever the nurse said huh that's high.
How do Dave’s new Topo Athletic shoes feel and why does he recommend them?
Let's take it again. Which of course Only made it worse. Let me rewind the story about thirty minutes. I was in the car heading for the appointment, but I felt a wave of anxiety like I've actually never felt before. At least in the context of I don't have a reason to be anxious. A few years earlier, say 2021, a few years earlier, Ava had breast cancer, which was a high stress situation. Gratefully, the cancer was caught early, treated well, she's cancer free. That wrapped up and we went right into the season of getting ready to move. And that was a year-long process. From Maryland to South Carolina. That was a very stressful year. We moved down here, then there's the auto accident. He was in a car crash, serious car crash.
that was our focus for the first half of twenty twenty one. And as I'm heading to the doctor's office I think with all of that largely in the rear view mirror, my my mind was allowed to to wander. To land on other things. And in that moment, as I was driving to Good morning, how are you? And in that moment, as I was driving to the doctor's office, I thought of something that needed to be done at work.
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