Jonathan Steedman (00:01.548)
Hey, so if you listen to last week's podcast, you'll remember that I mid podcast had the idea that I should do a podcast on my walking pad. so I'm not actually on my walking pad, I'm going to do a podcast about a walking pad more accurately, because I get a lot of questions about it. And I because I go on about it a lot, because it has been one of the best purchases I've ever made for my health. and I've made a lot of purchases for my health because, you know, I'm

very interested in this area and I would say ooh but to put myself on the spot top three top five I know that's a big call but man and so I want to a convince you to buy a walking pad potentially no I don't want to convince you I want to if if you're a good fit for a walking pad I want to convince you to buy a walking pad and then I want to just give you a few tips about how I use it and hopefully they can help you.

So also let's just get this out of the way. I bought it off, I think I I can't even remember Harvey Norman. They a sale on. I bought mine for like 200 bucks. The brand is Black Lord. I'm sure it's I'm sure there's like 20 different versions of this walking pad that are exactly the same and are just like have different brands slapped on them in the same factory. So

Don't get too hung up on the walking pad. No, I don't have a discount code for you. No, Black Lord don't know I exist. I mean, it's probably not even a real company. I don't even know. It's just something to walk on. So if you're doing all of your research, spending an hour or two trying to pick the perfect walking pad, you are procrastinating. Buy the thing, put it in the cart, and away we go. Now, if you are instead wondering if should I even use a walking pad, if you work in an office.

And you are quite sedentary. And that's not a criticism, right? I'm sedentary. That doesn't make you a bad person. That's just reality for a lot of us and the way that we work. I have found it an absolute game changer. I don't use it like I'm not on calls with clients or doing like it's it's quite noisy, but I do so much of my work while I walk on it. And so any kind of emails, any kind of creative work, any kind of I can pretty much do any other sort of work while I walk on it.

Jonathan Steedman (02:17.79)
because I can control, you know, I'll have different speeds of walking. So if I'm doing something really creative, I'll probably slow it down so I can concentrate a little bit more. Whereas if I'm just sort of doing emails or maybe I'm watching something for work, then I'll crank it, right? And I get lots of steps that way. Why it's so good is because a lot of us suffer from nowhere near enough incidental activity. Now incidental activity is not

exercise. I'm very lucky. I have a lovely home gym. I have gotten into running. So I'm on average I'm exerc I'm in the gym for six hours a week and I run for two hours a week. Right? So I exercise a above average amount. I don't need to do more. But the reality is even though that's a lot of exercise, that's eight hours of I don't even know how many hours are in a week. Where's my calculator? What are we doing here?

24 times 7. Alright, so apparently there's 168. So if I so I'm exercising for less than 5% of my week, right? So if I want to help my joints, help my lower back, help my brain, and also help manage my body weight, there's 95% of my week that I could look at now. Obviously, I'm sleeping and yada yada yada. but

think a lot of people and I did this for many years fall into the trap of thinking to themselves I'm super active I exercise a lot but you're actually not very active you just exercise a lot and those are different things. So the walking pad has been really really helpful in getting my step count over frickin' four or five thousand steps a day which is just not great. Now if you're trying to lose weight and you're eating five thousand steps a day like good luck. You will have to eat not very much and it will be very very miserable. And if you're trying to maintain your weight and you're

walking four to five thousand steps, it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, you can do it, but it's miserable. You gotta really you're probably gonna eat less than you're comfortable eating. So if you're someone who is trying to lose weight or is someone who's trying to maintain their weight and you're always someone who is like at risk of gaining weight is what I would say. You know, like if you have you know there's two types of people, there's people who struggle to gain weight and people who struggle to lose weight. If you're someone who struggles to lose weight, a walking pad is a pretty awesome tool to add to your toolbox.

Jonathan Steedman (04:45.158)
some questions I get. Is it noisy? Yeah, it's really noisy. it is you know what actually while I talk, I'm just gonna turn it on so you can hear what's coming through. I am wearing a little lapel microphone. There you go, it's beeping. I'm wearing a little lapel microphone and it is sitting on my chest, and so I'm turning this thing up to I typically walk at around six, I think it's six kilometers an hour.

Which is quite fast, you know, I would slow that down to so this is me. I'm now on it. Right? I'm walking. and I can I can keep talking to you and I can do all the things, but whatever is coming through, I'll listen to this back after I've recorded, but I I'm guaranteeing that you'll be able to hearing here probably what sounds like windscreen wipers, as well as footsteps. So that is what it sounds like. Let me turn that off. the production value. Anyway, so that's gonna wind down now. so yeah, it's too noisy.

Me to use in any other context, but just don't use it when you're on calls. what other questions do I get? I should have thought this through.

the brand, I've already talked about the brand. yeah, how do I find working with it? What I have started doing is I use an app called Whisperflow W I S P R. it's a vic dictation tool and it is the bomb. I use it for a lot of other reasons. I could probably even do a podcast on it. But honestly, if I have that thing going, I just talk. I talk all my emails, I talk all my yeah, I talk everything.

and then you edit it a little bit, but I can talk while I walk and it's so much better than sitting there typing. I can type pretty comfortably still. I've typed full emails and you know, full replies and things like that, but I definitely find it easier if I am dictating. so yeah, I would I would probably add that to make it really easy. And then the last thing is I absolutely have a standing desk because I you know y you you need one to basically to work.

Jonathan Steedman (06:54.158)
yeah, I use a desk y I have done for like seven years or something now, and it's flippin' amazing. but again, not affiliated, there's plenty of other good stand up desks. But

If you work in a an office style capacity, obviously particularly at home, and if you are someone that has that struggles to lose weight.

the a walking pad is so good. It's so so so good. And I don't care how much you exercise, unless you are literally doing, you know, like twelve hours, ten hours a week of marathon prep or triathlon prep, you won't regret getting a walking pad. Anyway, that's my hard sell. Go get one.