Start! is an American Heart Association movement calling on all Americans and their employers to live longer, more heart-healthy lives through walking.
Walking is the easiest, most convenient form of activity — and it’s free.
Get at least 30 minutes of physical activity on most days because it is important to your health.
A Harvard Alumni Study conducted by Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger and his colleagues and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1986 found that individuals lived two hours longer for every hour of regular exercise they trained.
Benefits of Walking For the body, walking helps For the mind, walking helps
Walking for as little as 30 minutes a day provides a number of benefits:
For more information, see AmericanHeart.org/start














