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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 here. This has been my experience with walking, unfortunately -- that even with a lot of it, it just isn't enough. I'll try what you suggest -- I did it once in the past and was able to work up to 20-25 min jogs. Would love to make it back there, but feeling intimidated given a few extra years and pounds. [/quote]

When you were doing walking, were you only doing slow distance walking?  That's not as calorie burning.  Since you said that you can do a 30 min walk, as you become acclimated, to doing the exercise, you need to increase your pace and your energy level.  You need to start walking faster and doing more stretching as you walk.  So you work towards speed walking.  You want to make sure that you increase your heart rate while doing the walking.  Slow walking with a low heart rate, does not do more than slowly improve your general level of fitness and stamina.  But if you increase your walking pace and your heart rate, for longer and longer periods, then you'll start to see more progress.

And at our age (I am older than you, in my late 50's), you can't just get up and jog like we used to 20 years ago.  You have to gradually increase your exercise.  And as has been pointed out, jogging is bad on various joints, especially when we are overweight.   So, don't go with the jogging unless you want to join the many of our peers who have hip and knee problems and have to get joint replacements.  So, don't move to the jogging, more towards speed walking.  You'll get a lot of the same health benefits as jogging, but it will be much easier on your joints.[/quote]

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