You don't need to be a superfit able bodied adult to enjoy the outdoors: walking is a free, fun and sociable exercise that almost everyone can enjoy easily. Here you'll find practical advice on walking to improve your health, walking with families and children, easy walking for the less energetic or fit, and access to the outdoors for people with disabilities.
| If you're a complete beginner, our First Steps pages are a great place to start looking for advice and information. |  |
- Getting started
Basic introductory advice - Walking for health
Regular moderate exercise can keep you fit: find out more here.
See also our Take 30 booklet - Walking made easy
Notes on what makes a walk easy or hard, the importance of pleasant surroundings, walking technique and tips on walking after a hip replacement. - Walking with children
Encouraging children to walk, and how adults can keep walking during pregnancy and with younger children in child carriers and pushchairs, plus a list of books of family walks. - Walking for people with disabilities
Practical advice on enjoying the outdoors for people with asthma, blind and partially sighted people, deaf and hard of hearing people, people with diabetes, people with epilepsy, and people with limited mobility including wheelchair users.
See also
 | Walking for you
How everyone can start enjoying the benefits of regular walking |
 | Take30
A practical guide to walking to improve health and well being |
