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Aim: The purpose of the present experimental study was to find out the best walking intervention protocol which would have significant effect on health related physical fitness of the middle aged people. Methodology: Total 32 subjects have been selected purposively and divided randomly in equal numbers in four groups. Three experimental groups namely Experimental Group 1 (EG -1), Experimental Group 2 (EG -2), and Experimental Group 3 (EG -3), have gone through three different walking protocol for 12 weeks designed with different intensity and volume of walking; whereas the Control Group (CG) did not get any training. Three components of health related physical fitness namely cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance and body fat percentage has been tested through 12 Minute walk/run, one minute bent knee sit ups and skinfold measurement respectively. ANCOVA has been applied to find out the differences among the groups at 0.05 level of significance. LSD test has been applied to find out the best walking protocol. Result & Conclusion: The statistical findings of mean score of pre and post test mean scores have revealed the fact that all the three walking protocol has significantly improved the selected health related physical fitness components. The walking protocol III has been proved to be best protocol may be because of its gradual increase of intensity of speed with fixed distance covered in lesser duration after every four weeks of training.