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Season 4 - Episode 183 - Walking changes your brain. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning from the chicken coop.
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  OK, so let's talk about walking because it's one of the things
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  that I do most during my days. I walk, I walk, I walk, I walk,
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  I walk, I walk. And my clients that I work with
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  regularly all know that while I'm talking to them, I'm walking
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  because it helps me stay focused and in the right state of energy
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  for their sessions. And people will ask, well, how
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  do you, how do you take notes? How do you do all this?
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  Well, I've conditioned my brain in order to remember.
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  I and I also have an iPad that I keep out that has built in
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  notebooks for every one of my clients.
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  And I stop and I jot notes in as I'm walking my circle around the
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  farm. And it may sound crazy, but it's
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  the way I stay energetic from the beginning of the day to the
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  end of the day. Because when you have 12
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  sessions a day, you know, four days straight each week, you're,
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  you're, you have to do things in order to make yourself OK with
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  doing that level of work. And I enjoy it.
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  So that's the first part of it. Now, why are we talking about
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  walking? Well, there's a recent study out
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  that was confirmed that talks about how walking is insanely
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  powerful in more than one way, just for your for your heart,
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  your lungs, everything else. However, this one says that it
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  can boost your memory and grow your hippocampus.
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  If you're walking for 40 minutes three times a week, 40 minutes
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  three times a week, and it actually grows your hippocampus
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  isn't that insane? So this is all about making sure
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  that there is a huge portion of movement in the human body.
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  We were not meant to be sedentary.
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  So all these people that love to comment that I don't like to sit
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  still. I don't, I don't like to sit
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  still. I sit still when there's a
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  reason. If it involves a movie or, you
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  know, hanging out with my family, I can do that.
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  I absolutely choose to do that. But honestly, I got to tell you,
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  I very much enjoy movement. One, it makes me feel alive. 2 I
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  love to have busy hands because growing things, as you know, is
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  my gig. It's my jam.
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  I just love to do it. I want to be out there digging,
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  fixing things, redesigning things.
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  I just don't sit stillwell and I never have.
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  And there was a time where that was bothersome for everyone
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  around me when I was younger. However, I have learned to work
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  with it and make a lot out of it and that's the whole point.
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  You make a lot out of it. You put yourself in that place.
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  And if you are a sedentary person and you're listening to
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  this, let me tell you, walking changed my life because when I
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  moved S from north to South and I got involved in southern food
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  and did not realize I was gaining weight, it was the way
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  that I lost my weight. I literally walked my butt off
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  and I'm not joking about that. I for 18 months, my goal was to
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  go down from where I was to where I wanted to be.
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  And it was 40 lbs. And because I'm tall and I'm
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  just kind of straight by nature, it just went on all over.
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  I was kind of like a sausage and I couldn't figure out where all
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  this weight was. But the scales don't lie.
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  Numbers don't lie. So I had to literally walk my
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  butt off. And the first thing I don't like
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  going to the gym. I can't stand taking the time in
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  the car going it me crazy. So I just started walking and we
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  lived in this neighborhood at the time that I could just it
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  was like a cul-de-sac neighborhood.
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  So everyone thought it was insane because all I did was
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  walk. But what happened was magical
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  because it wasn't just the weight that came off, it was my
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  attitude shifted, my ideas shifted, my energy shifted, and
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  one would think the more you walk the more tired you would
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  become. But the exact opposite happened
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  and all I could imagine was wow I can't believe how much energy
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  I have. If I keep going I'll feel even
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  better. And because of that I did.
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  And this time of year always is difficult for me to continue
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  walking at the rates I normally do because I get usually I get
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  like 22 to 25,000 steps a day. But in this heat, in this
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  humidity, I have to cut back. I have to walk in the house.
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  I am at a slower pace, so I drop back to like 15,000 steps in
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  this humidity. Otherwise I'm just drenched and
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  I'm giving myself a rash and it's uncomfortable.
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  And it does change you. So now I switch over and I sit
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  on a stationary bike, sit on, you know, my, the bike that I
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  have in my studio and I just sit there and I, you know, pedal
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  while I'm talking. So at least I'm moving and
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  feeling it. But the point is move because it
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  grows your brain. Get up, walk, do something
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  because it changes everything my friends.
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  So I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.