Give some tips to help older adults improve their experience walking.
-Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothes.
-Wear supportive shoes with grips on the soles.
-Consider using walking poles to improve upper body strength.
-Carry water and a snack in a light backpack or fanny pack.
-Start each walk with a five-minute slow warm-up.
-End each walk with a five-minute slow cool-down.
-For the first week walk five minutes briskly after your warm-up.
-For each ensuing week walk an additional two minutes walking briskly after your warm-up.
-By the twelfth week, you should be walking briskly for thirty minutes.
-If you are ambitious, you can extend this schedule so that you are walking briskly for sixty minutes.
-Most of all enjoy your surroundings and try different parks to walk in.