Walking, Mobility, and Low-Impact Fitness
Start gently with goals, gear and technique, then follow week-by-week plans and checklists.
New walkers often wonder how far, how fast and how often. If you are the person they ask, you need a clear beginner path and a few tools to hand. This deck gives you the path and the tools.
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This is a ready-to-use, editable PowerPoint deck of about 51 slides for people starting a walking habit. It covers SMART goals, an eight-week plan, gear, technique, the talk test, intervals, checklists and trackers. It suits new walkers, coaches, HR teams and community leaders. It is educational, not medical advice.
Chapter 1 explains the case for walking and the idea of a weekly activity guideline, and describes moderate intensity as brisk walking at which you can talk but not sing. Chapter 2 deals with getting started safely: a beginner's pace, choosing comfortable shoes and clothing, and mastering posture, arm swing and stride.
Chapter 3 builds the routine with SMART goals and three sample plans for Week 1, Weeks 2 to 4 and Weeks 5 to 8, plus a weekly blueprint, a tracking slide and a case vignette. Chapter 4 helps with everyday opportunities, the Walk With Ease programme and obstacle planning. Chapter 5 adds the talk test, heart-rate basics, terrain variety and intervals.
Chapter 6 places walking among strength, flexibility and other low-impact activities, with a vignette about mobility. Chapter 7 is the toolkit: a weekly walking tracker, a pre-walk checklist and a post-walk checklist. Chapter 8 closes with consistency, habit stacking and a community walking vignette about neighbours.
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Present chapters 2 and 3 in the first meeting, then share the weekly tracker and checklists.
Use the 8-week plans as a team challenge, with the pre-walk checklist as a handout.
Set one SMART goal, follow the Week 1 plan and tick off the checklists on each walk.
Download the deck, open it in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, and start with slide 13, the SMART goals slide. Then follow the Week 1 plan on slide 14.
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Educational content, not medical advice. Please check with a doctor before starting a new exercise routine.
Yes. It is a standard .pptx file with editable text, shapes and tables, so you can change wording, colours and order and add your own examples. It opens in PowerPoint and Keynote, and you can upload it to Google Drive to open in Google Slides. Layouts can shift slightly if a font is missing, so check the slides before presenting.
This deck is part of Walking, Mobility, and Low-Impact Fitness, ten decks sold singly for INR 99 (USD 1.49) or together for INR 599 (USD 7.99). The others are: 30-Day Walking Challenge Design; Habit Loops for Daily Movement; Joint-Friendly Home Routines; Mobility Snacks for Office Workers; Posture and Movement Breaks; Recovery and Stretch Plans; Step Goals That Matter; Strength Add-Ons for Walkers; Tracking Progress Without Perfection.
Both. The goals, technique and plan slides present well to new walkers, and the checklists work as a self-study kit.
The deck uses the talk test, where you can hold a conversation but not sing, and includes a slide on resting heart rate. Pace and heart-rate guidance is general, so check with a doctor if you have a heart or health condition.
Yes. The three plan slides are editable tables. Change the times, days or progression to suit your group or your own schedule.
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Yes. It is standard PowerPoint (.pptx), so you can change text, add your logo and remove slides. It opens in PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides.
Because it is a digital download, files are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
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