Why This Olympic Runner Believes Walking Is One of the Most Powerful Exercises You Can Do
Exercising wasn’t always important to Jeff Galloway—a bit of a surprise, perhaps, since he grew up to become an Olympic runner. AndGrowing up with a dad in the Navy, Galloway was the new kid in class thirteen different times before 8th grade. He was never interested in any regular sports or fitness and when he did get into“Well, I was an overweight, lazy kid,” Galloway tells. But the school that he eventually settled at in junior high required boys to go out for strenuous athletics.
“I had all types of academic challenges at that school, and the running focused me,” he says. He went from being near last in the class to the honor roll. Even though running gave Galloway a drive, he is the first to admit he wasn’t a natural talent. Instead, he studied the sport in the library, interviewed successful coaches and athletes, took what worked, and discarded the rest. He finally qualified for a state championship his senior year of high school but still didn’t win a college scholarship. “I just kept trying to get a little bit better each year and this unexpectedly allowed me to make the Olympic team in 1972,” he says.
Training walkers became an intrinsic element of Galloway’s passion for movement, and his own walks are essential to who he is. “I walk because itand more human. I walk to build endurance because that makes me feel empowered to take on life’s challenges,” he says. The meticulous studying that he began in high school established the foundations of his program today as a coach: research, experimentation, looking at data, and then adjusting the routine.
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