Early in May, my wife got me a Fitbit for our 40th anniversary. Hint Hint, you need to get out more. So I started walking every day and now I'm doing a mile early, a mile mid day, and a mile just before dinner. I lost almost 4 pounds, but for some reason I put 2 of them back on. Never mind, I feel a lot better and my back isn't bothering me so much any more.
Curious about similar experiences. Oh, by the way, I wear it at work too, average 10 miles on an 8 hour shift (retail hardware store). I understand this doesn't count much for exercise, but it's hard on the feet. But it's an eyeopener.

Walking is great exercise! My doctor told me to walk 5 miles a day. I don't get anywhere near that.

Around here there's lotsa mountains to hike up. Some steep, some not so much. On days when I'm feeling particularly energetic I'll go about 7 miles or so. Some days up to 10 miles.
My "normal" hikes are 3.6 miles with lotsa relentless uphills.
When my wife goes with me she calls my little hikes "death marches."
The first year after my neuropathy started I gained 60 pounds. So far I'm 20 down and I surprised my neurologist by walking into his office unaided.
My blood pressure's below average and my resting heart rate's 54. When I was getting treatments (they didn't work) I was setting off low heart rate alarms.
Walking's great exercise and hiking a mountain trail's good for both mind and body.

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I had a heart attack back in 2000. The Cardiologist suggested I walk for exercise. I listened. Started out slow and worked my way up for about a year. At my peak I was doing 5 miles a day.
My heart came back good and strong and the Doc has given me a clean bill of health every check up since.
Admittedly, I have fallen off quite a bit. It got to be a now and then thing for quite some years. But, I plan to retire next month and I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit on my butt waiting to die. So I've started walking again. For now its whenever I get a chance, but once I retire for real, I plan on going a minimum of four days a week.
I'm fortunate that my little town has many beautiful parks with walking trails from 1/2 to 1 1/2 miles long. For the time being I average about 3 miles each time out.
I also plan to do some camping and hiking in some of our State Parks in the days to come.

They say keep moving or die. I plan to keep on truckin'!

I put on some weigh due to our very cold winter here in Illinois. I do go to a gym and when it is nice out I ride a mountain bike down the bike path and on some streets for a ride of 10 miles. I'm the oldest in my work group (56) and can still out work most of the others who are in their 20s and 30s.

Back in March I decided I wanted to get rid of my winter belly before biking season started. I joined the local Charter fitness and started doing an hour a day Monday through Friday on a treadmill. Now that it's warm enough to cycle I just go on the rainy days. So I've gone from 201 pounds down to 190. IWB holsters sure are feeling better.

How come mailmen dont live forever?

Haven't seen one around here on foot in years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufax1b7ySSE

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My grandfather started walking three miles a day when he was 60. He's 82 now, and we don't know where the heck he is.

Somebody should have told him to walk in a big circle. He's probably on the other coast by now.

I had a heart attack on May 3rd and have been walking as per my doctor's suggestion since my release from the hospital. I was doing some walking before my event, but since then I have been dieting and and am up to 4-5 miles daily. So far I have lost 15 lbs. Along with the cardio and weight loss benefit my arthritic knee is feeling pretty good too. I would say it has paid off and I hope it helps prevent another heart attack in the future.

Exercise is fine but you will never lose weight unless you change your diet - you can walk 5 miles/day forever but if you don't cut the bad stuff it's all for nothing.

Some of us are "allergic" to carbs - bread, pasta, starchy veggies (potatoes, corn, peas, beans) - by allergic, I don't mean celiac or the like - I just mean by eating that stuff you will always gain weight and feel pretty ****** (especially if you are older).

By cutting grains, starches and sugars (not as hard as you might think) you can get a new lease on life - lost 55+ lbs - I think I got 10 years back (I'm 66).

Good luck.

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I've cut way back on sugars and starches. I'm eating lean protein like fish, chicken and pork and fruits and vegetables.
The hard part is that I'm married to an Italian, pasta with everything.

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I run 3.25 miles every other day. On the off days I walk 2 miles. I'm almost 53 and am a police detective. Staying in some sort of shape is a must.

Walking always worked for me I try to do 4 to 6 miles a day. I'm in my mid 60s 5'9" Wt.150, BP and pulse low. Best part is walking requires no membership fees, equipment or personal trainers.

I walk my little dog, Moose the Holy Terrier, several times a day, but aerobic walking is out of the question. The world is his olfactory all-you-can-sniff buffet, his canine Facebook (though with dogs it's more the end farthest from the face). He has to smell everything.

My knees are bone on bone and my lungs are long since gone; so in all honesty I might not walk a hell of a lot faster without the little character. But at least he gets me moving at 76, where I wasn't at 73 when he adopted me by arrant trickery.

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Well guys I can tell you from experience that running or walking is some of the best exercise.

I am currently 82, working on 83, and until I was about 65 I ran 8.5 miles every day at a 7 to 7.5 minute mile. I had one of the local mall ladies who checked my BP actually look at me and as if I was really alive. BP was such that she had never seen before and Heart rate of about 54....she was astounded.

I currently walk, on the beach, 3 miles every day.

Keeps my weight down, my HR low and BP is fine. I, like some have suggested, watch my diet, eat little to no red meat, good veggies, very little bread, no pasta, if I eat fried chicken, I skin it to get rid of most of the fatty stuff.

DIET and EXERCISE is the answer. There it a lot in the saying, "A body in motion stays in motion, A body at rest stays at rest."

GET UP, GET OUT and go for it.

All I can say is TRY IT...you might like it and it really works. Perhaps the best feeling of the day is relaxing after a good walk.

Remember Doberman on Sgt Bilco? Sarge my feet hurt!

I walk when I can find the time and really enjoy it. Should do it every day. One thing that's helped motivate me is knowing how far I've gone. I hate guessing. Tried a pedometer but questioned its accuracy. It would say different numbers for the same route. Since getting a GPS watch, I know exactly how far I've gone and much more. It beeps at every mile and displays how long it took to go that mile. Just connect it to the computer when you get home and record whole event. Date, distance, time, elevation changes, even map it. It's made for runners, but works just as good for walkers.

Google Garmin Forerunner 10 GPS Watch

I just posted about this in another thread. Since April I walk 2 miles, 4 times a week. I work two days a week and walk 10,000+ steps. I gave up soda and candy, eat a healthy snack if I have one, and try to maintain portion control. I’ve lost 20 lbs, and hope to loose 5-7 more landing on 150. I don’t look pregnant any more, my back feels better, and I can carry IWB again! I use a Fitbit, but found an installed app on my iPhone that works fairly well too.

On a good day I get in a mile and a half walking. That might not sound like much, but I walk with a cane a lot. I have a bad knee and without the cane taking some of the pressure off I couldn't begin to walk any kind of distance. My cardiologist told me about a pedometer I could put on my cell phone and even when I can't get out to walk a substantial distance, it gives me the incentive to put in steps here in the house where before I was just sitting on my tail.

I walked 2 miles or more for 700+ days straight before Achilles tendinitis stopped me. All's walking ever did for me was make me hungry. Did wonders for my heart rate though. I lost 21 pounds not walking. After a year's layoff to get my heels right I'm back at it. Walking is really good for your mind more so for me than for my belly.

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Walking is your basic low tech/minimal equipment exercise.I am a bicyclist, I find an occasional long walk good for variety. A cane or a walking stick feels good in the hand. I have several sets of ankle weights, looking into getting a weighted belt or a vest for extra calorie burning.

By my calculations he'll be coming from the opposite direction in about 9 months.....assuming he can walk on water.

I started hiking and bike riding again in my early fifties and over a few years it did wonders for my back and heart. I could cover 8-12 miles at 10,000’ and snowshoe 7 miles at that elevation into my early 60s.Skiing,snowshoeing and kayaking became fun again.I can only walk a mile or two now (stroke and heart trouble,I’ve been ordered off of my bike,etc) at 66,but it’s better than nothing

I like walking. Probably our primary form of entertainment. Last coupla months ago, though, my right knee has been worsening. (Had the left replaced a coupla years ago.) Hope to get it replaced soon, once covid settles down, so that walking becomes pain free again.

If I can get by the hip-lock at the half-mile mark I can go a few miles.

I try to walk each day go about 3/4 of a mile out and then return. Go north one day south another.

I live on a sort of quiet back road except for the summer months when the flatlanders come up here to play. Some of those people do tend to get your attention.

I can relate to the laws being passed saying slow down or change lanes when you go by certain situations. (cops, tow trucks, tire changer)

Walking facing traffic natch,you run into those people that never slow down or drift left a bit but put their passenger wheel on the white stripe on the side of the road and stay there. No vechicles coming but they do not move. Speed limit 45 but average speed is 55+.

Now I'm a big guy and dressed in reflective clothing and unless your Stevie Wonder you will see me at a good distance. To be nice I normally refer to them as Kamikazes but I do have some better terms for some of them.

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I get 2 1/2 miles in 4:45 am to 5:30 am Mon-Fri. Wife and I have 2 weeks off so this week we got 19 mi in 4 days. Today is Christmas, we're eating not walking. Weight is a "health problem" past 60 and I have had high blood pressure since my late 40's. I'd like to lose another 15 lbs but I'd need to walk to Denver to do that. Joe

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Yup.

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If you are unable to walk, bike. Or use an elliptical machine.
If you haven't exercised in years then start out stretching and graduate to some easy Yoga positions. Do something.
Use it or lose it.

I always tell folks my age: "When the Grim Reaper comes to your house the first place he looks is the La-Z-Boy. Keep moving and be someplace else." Joe

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When my peripheral motor nerve condition nearly put me in an electric scooty chair, I started out by walking laps in an indoor pool using the muscles that still worked. It took nearly a year but with the help of my wonderful wife, I relearned to walk and I was back to hiking and biking.
Now my wife and I go to the gym 2 to 3 times a week and we have a home spin bike and elliptical for home workouts when the weather's too yucky to go outside and play.

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