Walking Leads to Better Form for Older Men

Although walking ranks among the favorite forms of fleshly energy for older adults, few studies have considered the definite contact of walking as opposed to overall fleshly action, on healthiness in older people.

"Men's condition is becoming an increasing reference to given their extraordinary rates of lingering diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular illness. In particular, condition behaviors of older men have not been premeditated very much," said the study's conduct originator Jeff Vallance, Ph.D., associate professor in the ability of condition disciplines at Athabasca University in Canada. He says that his team's turn over was among the first to look carefully at impartial measures of walking and of condition and distinction of lifetime among older men.

The researchers surveyed 385 men above age 55 living in Alberta, Canada. The majority (69 percent) were overweight, with 19 percent being overweight. The men wore movement pedometers for three consecutive days, including one weekend day, to amount walking energy.