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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please ignore the walking advice. You will never get inshape simply by walking. Add 10 to 30 second busts of jogging into your Walks. Do 4 minutes of walk and then a short burst of jog. Cycle through this until you can hold the jog for 30 seconds. 
After you find this more comfortable,  make every other burst an "all out" sprint. If you can do just 5 seconds,  do 5. But cycle up over weeks until you get to 30 seconds

Add light dumbell compound exercises 2twice a week. 
Keep going. 
Your body will make changes to handle the additional demands you put on it over time.[/quote]

OP, please do not start with this person's suggestions.

People who have not done exercise in a while need to start somewhere.  For an out-of-shape person in their 50s to start, they aren't going to start with even intermittent jogging, especially at this time of year with the heat the way it is outside.  That's a good way for this person to get a quick trip to the emergency room.  Between the heat, and the exertion that their body is not used to, they might get light-headed, might have heart palpitations and a number of other issues that come up.

Walking is a great way to start and ease yourself into exercise when you haven't done any for many years.  She should start walking, first shorter, then slowly longer walks.  When she has acclimated herself to longer walks of at least 30 minutes, and when the temperatures start coming back down, she can try what you suggest, but what you propose is a bad way to start cold turkey for someone who has gone for many years without exercise.[/quote]

OP here. I can definitely manage a 30 minute walk, or even much longer (well, maybe not in this heat). [/quote]

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