Newbie

I have never posted on this forum before. Maybe you can provide some education. I will be three years out this coming July. I am 60 years old and try to walk at least 5 miles a day. Should I be doing more? How do you figure out what you should be walking daily? Thanks in advance for the help. Charlie

Charlie, welcome to the walking forum! Five miles a day is awesome! The best advice I can give is to walk 30 minutes to 1 hour a day. Make sure you walk fast enough to raise your heart rate. Just taking a stroll doesn't cut it! Even if you stroll for 5 hours! You can get lots of info about walking at: http://walking.about.com/ Check it out. Also, feel free to join us in our Walking Challenge. HOW IT WORKS Set a goal in minutes or miles for the month of February. Every time you walk, go to the walking forum and log it. At the end of the month see if you reached your goal. It is that simple! EXAMPLE I will walk 10 hours in the month of February. or I will walk 25 miles in the month of February. These can be any type of walks - around the neighborhood, the track, treadmill, mall walks, Walk Away the Pound videos, what ever. But they do need to be walks, not exercise in general. I hope you join us. Seven

welcome newbie! The only thing I would say is you need to fidn your resting heart rate. Once you do that you will be able to find a Fat Burn zone or a Cardio Zone. They are very different, and where you want to keep the rate depends on rate and intesity of your walking. this may work for you - http://www.weightlossforall.com/target%20heart%20rate%20zone.htm