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The Benefits of Walking For Mental & Physical Health
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Jan 10, 2023
Let's take a stroll around the block and discuss all the benefits of walking and why it's good for you. We may even teach you a couple of moves, but we will definitely get you moving! #WalkAtHome #YanaFit #InsightTimer #Calm #Spotify #walkingmeditation All interviews are for informational purposes only and are educational in nature. Any health advice discussed in this show/podcast is not intended to treat disease and should be discussed with your doctor prior to implementing. 📌 Subscribe to Caren's Channel: https://YouTube.com/@carenglasser 📌 Subscribe to Rob's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@officialrobglasser Pick up some earbuds for your walking pleasure: https://amzn.to/3IDidAv or https://amzn.to/3QESdqj Pick up a pair of Nikes: Men's: https://amzn.to/3itHB0V Women's: https://amzn.to/3vSdJym Pick up a pair of Asics: Men's https://amzn.to/3X32Ky5 Women's: https://amzn.to/3GCjEfM Apple Watch: https://amzn.to/3k8SzcG Fitbit: https://amzn.to/3vYl9jI Watch all shows on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3VStXU3 Follow Caren on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow Caren on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Check out the AlteredUniverseLive store to pick up some cool swag: https://www.altereduniverse.live/shop
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to minding your mental health
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I'm here with my co-host and Son Rob
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Glasser how are you today Rob not too
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bad thank you
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so we always talk about the topics that
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shape mental health today we teach the
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importance of inclusion and why we
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should be kind so whether you're here
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live or on replay we love you just let
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us know where you are tuning in from so
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today we are talking about walking for
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mental health and physical health so
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I didn't realize that walking could help
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our mental health I know it could walk
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help our physical health so what do you
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have for us
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right so walking in general is great
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activity to do and as the doctor in the
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article we found said most everybody is
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able to do it
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um though I caveat and I think we've
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talked about it before if you're unable
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to actually stand or get up you do have
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machines nowadays where you can actually
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walk run or bike from your seat
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and get a similar
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um Effectiveness there right so the
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article we quote from was from The Today
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Show and they had a lady on that episode
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that actually was in charge of one of
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those walk four 30-day challenges and
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she basically got Al Roker and a couple
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of them to walk with them to start off
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the 30 day now if you don't know what a
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30 day challenge is guys basically it's
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30 days of doing a specific uh activity
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in this particular case it's walking for
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a month
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um usually it doesn't matter how
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sometimes it is specific sometimes it
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says walk for an hour sometimes just
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says get out there and take a walk right
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but either way I recommend doing that or
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you can do what we do at home here and
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we're going to shout them out a little
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bit later but you can go on YouTube and
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follow some of the great channels that
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specifically are devoted to just walk-in
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exercises right so
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you mentioned uh the body and we'll go
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over that first because that's something
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most of us know what it is so many of
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the systems of the body benefit from
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walking according to the doctor that
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they talk to walking can help the
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following
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improving your cardiovascular health and
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function obviously your heart keeps you
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moving keeps you pumping literally so a
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good heart a good blood flow is very
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important it increases your aerobic
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capacity aerobic is basically exercise
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that has to do with breathing and the
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better you can breathe the better your
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lung function is your gold
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it can improve your lung or blood
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pressure it can control your blood sugar
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especially if you are at risk for a uh
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weight related health problem it can
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increase metabolism maintain or even
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lose weight they didn't say lose weight
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but if you walk enough you actually can
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drop a few pounds as well right reduce
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your risk of osteoarthritis and maintain
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Mobility right uh no sugar enough one of
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my other guests that I have she has
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Mobility
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difficulties so she actually told me the
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other day what she does at one of our
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shows uh for her to keep arthritis away
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and it's basically joint exercises so
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basically it's in your hands your arms
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but also in your legs because
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unfortunately a lot of people
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don't have the ability to be mobile as
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others so it's important to and most
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doctors would say to keep your your
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joints and your your limbs right moving
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as best you can
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so that
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you know it's interesting it sounds like
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walking is the perfect exercise it it
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does everything pretty much is because
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almost anybody
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um can do it
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and even the person who wrote The Blog
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here said that whether it's snowing by
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them whether it's raining her and her
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husband go out and they walk for 30
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minutes their secret weapon they say is
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their dog who needs to go out for a walk
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but in reality but in reality though it
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is it is proof now can everybody go out
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in those weather conditions no I mean
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somebody I know over in Nevada right now
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it is super bad to the point where you
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can't go outside because it's too
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dangerous so
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it's understandable that somebody can
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say walking is easy to do but use your
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common sense keep in mind the
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surroundings if it doesn't seem safe
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and we'll talk about it later do the
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inside do the walking I don't think it
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matters where you walked yeah I'm just
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gonna say you don't necessarily have to
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go outside the walk even though it's
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it's always enjoyable and I know I walk
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my dog and my dog gets me to go outside
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and walk even if I don't want to but if
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it was inclement weather I could
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certainly do it in the house I could I
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Pace anyway so that's walking isn't it
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isn't that kind of that's one color is
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too depending on how often you face yes
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so we all know that and I think most of
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the stuff that I read off of at least
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from my point of view I already knew
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from you know biology from stuff like
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that that walking really kind of it's a
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good way to keep your your breathing
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your air your heart your everything
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going but as you mentioned and many
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others
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how does it work for your mind right so
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the uh these are all quotes from
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different doctors but the first doctor
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named Dr Mark a sloba from the he's an
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orthopedic Sports Medicine surgeon at
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Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore it
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says walking outside being in nature and
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getting out of the same place and allows
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you to decompress and understand what's
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going on AKA refocus he continues to say
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in my experience and helps you to be
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able to almost meditate to get in touch
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with your thoughts and understand what's
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important and just give yourself time to
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be
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um Bryant Dr Brian's the other guy who's
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the major guy in this article continued
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his that guys by saying
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uh there are so many wonderful benefits
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in terms of being able to have that
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positive distraction a change in the
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scenery sunlight or just fresh air so
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it's a little more
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um creative and vague when it comes to
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how it goes to your your mind but it's
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pretty obvious when you think about it
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for me when you go out and you hit the
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trail and you see an animal you see the
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formations you get to go somewhere like
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that or the zoo I used to love just
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wandering the zoo not just for the
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animals but the scenery a zoo creates
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the the ability to make you feel like
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you are in the savannah of Africa the
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jungles of South America right or the
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Outback right right and when I take when
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I take my dog out I mean I make a point
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of really looking around and just seeing
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what I see the the foliage in the trees
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and and because it's all part of the
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experience right and I guess it does
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really help calm my mind because I'm not
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thinking about the talking in my head
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how beautiful it is out there right yeah
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now the funniest thing at the end of the
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blog here is they said it's a hard habit
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to actually break because once you start
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walking you kind of don't stop
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um there's a funny commercial I think
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it's for shoes where like this lady's
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walking and the husband pulls up and
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he's like you've been gone for three
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days now and she's like oh you know
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signifying that if you just kind of keep
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going and you have the right Footwear
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you're you're good to go yeah
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um but that was really that a short
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article easy read something I recommend
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checking out uh but really I wanted to
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kind of go into the the YouTube If you
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know which one do you want me to put up
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first so I'll put a walk at home first
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because again I I shot them out for two
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different reasons I I don't use them as
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much anymore however a lot of people
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that I've talked to say they like
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continuity and the same and if you want
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that go to these guys every video they
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have other than the host being different
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is the exact same setup for me I got a
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little bored doing the same thing
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however I know a lot of Physicians will
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say if you do something that you're good
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you're doing
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stick with it now I have I asked you to
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put up the website as you did because
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you can actually find more info you can
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get their their gear you can get all
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that stuff but you can learn what they
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do and I'm not sure their backstory
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fully but they do talk a lot about you
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know praising you know yourself and
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praising out words when you're doing it
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so they do have some sort of not
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necessarily religious connotation but
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some sort of how gratitude means to
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walking so they're very in tune with the
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mental health part because they're not
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just walking to get you you know sweaty
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and lose weight but they're telling you
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why you're doing it you know raise up
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Reach Out be gracious so it's an
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interesting idea um I don't know if
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you've ever seen them or not they have
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no I'm gonna go check them out I'm gonna
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check them out after this a lot of
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subscribers on YouTube again this is no
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offense to them they're great I just for
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me
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um like who like more than doing just I
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like a little bit of a different now
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when we get to another person you'll
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kind of laugh because she does the same
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thing but for you because I know you
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like you have the mirror and stuff like
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that when you do walk if you do it at
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home
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what is your
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go-to or do you have a go-to I don't
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really have a go-to other than as I said
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I Pace I tend to just walk back and
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forth across my house I'm in a one-story
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home and I can go from one end to the
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other and literally go back and forth
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and the reason why I know that I'm
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actually getting those steps in is that
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I have a Fitbit and I'm able to actually
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see how many steps I've done regardless
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of whether I go out and walk or I just
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Pace in my house it's always around the
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same amount of steps which is
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fascinating I think you know that was
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kind of odd because I would have
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expected being out would have been more
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but hey yeah there you go see you don't
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need to be outside and still get your uh
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yeah you can do it at the you can do it
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on the mirror you can do a walking you
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know exercise with with on the mirror I
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think Peloton has a walking thing too
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you know it's probably more right okay
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yeah you know we're going to have some
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sort of elliptical machine that imitates
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the yeah but I love the idea that there
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are YouTube channels that you can you
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can go check out you do not have to
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spend money for this guys you can just
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go check out the YouTube channels now
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you have another one what's the other so
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the one that we do now um I and again I
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don't know what her full name is but her
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Channel goes by janafit and again you'll
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laugh because she does do similar videos
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on each one however she does the Walking
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move walking move walking move so it's
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about eight to ten minutes and every 30
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seconds it changes so it starts with a
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walk it goes into something it's either
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a standing crunch it's either a Bend
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it's either whatever and that's what I
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enjoy doing it because it's a walking
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and theoretically if you were to
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describe it it is a walking exercise but
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it's a walking exercise while exercising
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as well
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she has everything from five minute
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cardio where it just gets your heart
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rate up two 30 to 40 minute full on
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walking we're literally for 30 40
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minutes you are doing a full-on exercise
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now time constraints usually have us do
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the 10 minute one here during the week
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but on the weekend we can pop on a 15 to
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20 minute one because we're not as
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constrained to whatever
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but I do like her a lot she apparently
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has new channels now she does a a
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cooking one for health she does a bunch
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of stuff uh she does some with her
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daughter she does some with her friends
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so there's some where there's two people
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on screen it's an interesting mix and
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again by accident I came across it I was
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on YouTube I was like I need a five ten
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minute thing right now an awful lot of
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time I found her and boom
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um and like you said you don't have to
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pay now these people do have their
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patreon and subscriber ships and you can
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get more stuff but really if you're just
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looking for a a exercise just like my
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mom said you can just go on watch it and
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you're done
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and for that matter some of the um the
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apps that are out there insight timer
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has some walking uh meditation for free
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they have their free side of it
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um as well as come every all of these
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apps have the free end of it and you
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don't have to subscribe for the more you
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know deep dive kind of things there's
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some great things out there now a walk
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you need to have the right shoes
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right
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that's a lead-in if I ever heard it so
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we were allowing the other day because I
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I do walk and
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um I I have two pairs of tennis shoes
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that I wear all the time and they're
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kind of getting trashed on the bottom
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um but these are uh what are these These
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are Asics and I'm gonna throw up some of
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these shoes right on the screen if you
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want to go check them out these are
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women Asic gels you can go check those
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out or somebody just scanned it that's
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awesome guys
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um thanks for checking it out
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um
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and in addition to that
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um I also because you know you have to
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have two pairs you rotate them right I
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also have Nike running shoes as well and
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I have black and white I love these
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shoes they're a little more expensive
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but they are more of a running shoe kind
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of thing apparently there is a big
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difference between running and walking
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shoes I have yet to figure that out guys
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so I don't know figure it out but of
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course we don't want to leave the men
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alone so go ahead and check this out as
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well I like those those kind of look
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like the shoes I have um yeah
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those are really well actually they kind
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of look like the ones that I have here
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um
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and also to check out the men's version
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of the Nike shoes and go ahead scan the
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code or if you're looking in the chat
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you might be able to see a link there
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you can click on that link as well
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um really cool stuff I mean cool shoes I
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can personally vouch for them I wear
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them so check them out we'd love to hear
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what you think what's your favorite
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walking or running shoe let us know in
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the chat if it happens to be a Nike or
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an Asics go ahead and let us know we are
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thrilled you guys are scanning this this
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is so cool I love this work this is a
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new toy that Rob and I are playing with
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right now that we can you know put the
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QR codes and and the links and
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everything so thank you for playing
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along let us know what your favorite uh
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running or walking shoe is
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um earbuds too or no did we oh I don't
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think we did we put earbuds I don't
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think we put earbuds in here oh oh no we
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didn't but I have yeah because I thought
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another accessory would be good I don't
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use them I know Krista does for her work
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but I know a lot of people like to um
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you know walk or run right right I'm
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actually looking to see if I put them in
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here or not
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um probably did not but I'm gonna go
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check and see if I did and I can
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actually bring them up on the screen I
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did not I I so nope sorry about that
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well maybe we'll put a link in the um
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comments later on
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um you know in the I'm sorry in the
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description in the show copy so guys
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what do you think is walking good for
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your mental health is it good for your
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physical tell us what
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a twice daily routine like Rob does it
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twice a day I only can get it in one
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time a day
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um
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now I'm feeling guilty that you do it
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more than I do I'm gonna have to up my
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game here Rob
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thanks for joining us today guys
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um don't forget to join us on Thursday
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we have another altered Universe Live
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show for the life of me I cannot
15:01
remember what's called but I'm sure it's
15:03
recycling oh we're up oh that's going to
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be a really cool show we're up cycling
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and if you don't know what upcycling is
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you have to check in with us on Thursday
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so go out give somebody an awesome day
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and Rob and I will see you next time on
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