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Get-Fit Guy

507 - Walking Is a Fitness Superfood—6 Steps to Better Stepping

Get-Fit Guy

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Health & Fitness, Sports

4.6746 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Walking is a fitness superfood! Biomechanist Katy Bowman joined me to talk about how to walk effectively and maximize the impact this simple, everyday activity has on your strength, stability, overall fitness, and health. Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/walk-well-katy-bowman https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/GetFitGuy https://twitter.com/GetFitGuy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

0:08.3

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

0:11.5

Over at a website called Nutricious Movement, it says this.

0:16.9

Around the globe, people are waking up to how many of our ailments and illnesses can be

0:22.7

attributed to our deeply sedentary habits. People have been told to move more and move better

0:29.5

to resolve their pain or decrease their risk of certain ailments, but they're not sure

0:34.7

where to start. And that is exactly where people like my guest on today's episode,

0:40.1

biomechanist and author Katie Bowman come in.

0:43.1

Katie is an internationally recognized biomechanist,

0:46.6

author and science communicator with both the skill

0:49.9

and the passion for reintroducing movement into people's everyday lives.

0:56.0

With her best-selling books, an award-winning podcast, and her online classes,

1:00.9

she reaches hundreds of thousands of people every month,

1:04.4

and she's been featured on TV shows like NBC's Today Show

1:07.9

and in publications such as prevention and good housekeeping.

1:12.2

Now Katie has recently teamed up with Jill Miller, Fasha expert and the co-founder of Tune Up

1:18.5

Fitness Worldwide, to create a comprehensive whole-body program that breaks down the act of walking

1:26.5

into its components. By tackling each one separately,

1:31.2

their aim is to help improve your gait, gain distance, and make every step count for whole

1:37.6

body health and longevity. And the program is aptly called walking well, a stepwise approach to an everyday movement.

1:47.2

I actually just completed the entire 14-segment six-hour course, and I can say firsthand that

1:54.4

walking well is for everybody, and everybody.

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