- So I wanna talk to you about walking
and specifically how I use walking to get lean,
as well as to stay lean all year round.
Because my lifestyle by default, would not be very active.
I'm an entrepreneur,
I spend most of my days sitting down working on a computer,
even before I was an entrepreneur,
I was a software engineer,
again, sitting down most of the time.
Before that I was a gamer,
again, sitting down most of the time.
So I never really had that super active lifestyle.
And my activity levels would probably be
between 2,000 maybe 2,500 steps a day
if I don't do something deliberately to change my lifestyle.
And because of walking,
that's really what allowed me to get leaner much easier.
It allows me to stay lean,
it also improves my recovery between the workouts,
my mental focus, my productivity,
and all of these amazing benefits across the board.
So in this video, I wanna share with you six ways
I incorporate walking into my routine.
So you can take advantage of these as well
in your own routine and start getting results.
So without any further ado, let's dive into it.
Now, the first way
that I like to add more walking to my routine
without really changing much in my life,
is to make sure that I'm walking
anytime I'm doing a meeting, a phone call, a Zoom call,
a Skype call, or any type of call, I'm gonna be walking.
And this is a very easy way for me to leverage things
that are already in my schedule,
things that I've dedicated time for.
And I can just do walking at the same time.
And if I look back historically at the data that I have,
actually, the days that I'm the busiest,
are the days that I'm most active.
Because I'm spending a lot of time in the meetings,
I can easily get 10,000, even 15,000 steps some days.
And if you're someone who also does a lot of meetings,
this is a very easy fix,
you can leverage this time to get more walking.
It's not only going to help you with fat loss
and all the fitness goals,
but it's also gonna make you more productive.
I find myself a lot more focused,
I'm paying a lot more attention,
I'm more in that flow state in general.
So it's a very really good way
to enhance your productivity as well,
and it's fairly easy to implement.
All you need is really a pair of Bluetooth headphones.
Or if you don't have a pair of Bluetooth headphones,
you can even just tether yourself through the phone,
your phone can log into all these services these days.
So you're pretty much good to go.
So it can leverage things
that are already happening in your life.
And this is gonna be a huge contributor
to your activity levels.
Now, the second way that I've been able
to add a lot more walking to my routine,
is that I'm gonna walk any time
I'm studying a course, watching a video,
like you're watching this video right now,
you should be walking.
There's no reason to be sitting on as you're watching this.
Then as I'm listening to an audio book,
or I'm listening to a podcast, or anything like that,
I wanna be on my feet, I wanna be walking.
It not only helps me, again, with fitness,
but I'm also retaining the information a lot more,
I'm getting ideas.
And if there was like a drone
following me around the city as I'm taking my walks,
you'd see me walk, walk, walk, walk,
I'm pulling out my phone,
and suddenly I'm gonna stop, make a note,
and I'm just gonna continue.
'Cause I'm getting ideas out of the material,
I'm enjoying the material a lot more,
I'm paying more attention.
This is the benefit of walking at the same time as learning.
And this has really helped me a lot
in terms of personal development.
I love reading books.
I read a ton of books and I absorb a lot of material,
scientific studies, and all this type of stuff.
So if you're really passionate about personal development,
there's no reason why you shouldn't be walking
while listening to material.
It's gonna really make a huge difference for you.
Now, what's really going to make a huge difference for me,
is if you hit that like button below, it means a ton,
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It means a lot to me.
And now let's dive into the third way
which is actually one of my favorites,
is to make sure that I'm walking
during my break between the sets,
whether I'm in the gym or training at home.
And this is another very easy way
to leverage the existing time you have.
The only excuse not to walk slowly,
and recover between the sets and to be walking there,
is if you've done the set of 400 pound squats or deadlifts,
and you really need to sit down.
If that's not you and at not that time,
then you need to be walking around and leveraging that time.
I can easily get 1,000, 2,000 extra steps
from my workout that I normally wouldn't get
if I was sitting around
on some bench or somewhere in the gym.
And I see a lot of people do this in a commercial gym.
And in general, I see a lot of people do this.
There's really no reason for you not to leverage that.
And actually, if you wanna improve recovery,
this is the way to do that.
You're gonna actually have a much better time to recover
between those sets if you're also walking.
Now the fourth way, that's a really cool one.
If you wanna add more walk into your life,
add walking into social activities.
So if you're hanging out with your friends,
go out for a walk, invite your friends for a walk.
It's a great opportunity for you guys to chat, have fun.
It's just much more engaging.
And also if you're dating, take your date out for a walk.
Don't just get locked up in this coffee shop,
and you both are staring at the wall.
It's not really that engaging, it's not that fun.
If you go out for a walk, it's a shared experience.
You're moving around, ideas are flowing,
conversations are flowing, it's just a lot more engaging.
So I would highly recommend make walking
one of your primary social activities.
For me, it has been and all my friends know this,
and I've actually started getting messaged,
"Hey, are we gonna go for that walk
"that we normally go for?"
It become a habit for everybody.
And then you can be that person that starts that habit
within your social circle.
And everybody's gonna be grateful for that.
And it's something that's gonna definitely enhance
a lot of lives, not just yours.
Now, the fifth way you can add more walking to your routine,
is another cool one.
Is to simply make it a part of your routine.
So it can be a part of your morning routine
where you take a 20-minute walk, just in the morning,
to get yourself ready for the day.
It can be a pre-bed part of your routine.
So it's that evening ritual that you have,
you can add some walking there.
That's also a lot of people like to do after dinner
to let that food digest and settle.
So they go for a walk,
so you can make it a part of your routine.
And then again, it becomes a habit,
it becomes something that adds to your life.
It's a very easy way to leverage that.
And the way number six,
is to really look for every opportunity to add more walking.
I see a lot of people fighting for that parking spot
that's right in front of the entrance.
Don't be that person.
There's no reason not to park a little bit further away
and go and just take that three to five minutes walk,
no problem, and just look for every opportunity.
And be the person that takes the stairs
and just be that active individual.
This will make a huge difference.
All these little things do add up.
You wanna cultivate that identity of an active person
and there's so many opportunities in your life
that you're probably missing out right now
because you're not really seeing them.
So be on the lookout, always look at for it
as an opportunity for you to get more recovery,
get a little bit of extra calorie burned.
All this stuff does add up and will make a huge impact.
And that's ultimately what a healthy lifestyle is.
It's a set of small habits,
small decisions that you make over time
that then become a part of your lifestyle.
They become habits and you end up being lean
and it's so easy to stay lean
because you have these habits working for you.
If you have some of your preferred ways
that you would like to add walking,
leave them in the comments below,
I'd love to hear from you.
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