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Today's people are leading a very unhealthy lifestyle. Inadequate sleep, eating disorder, lack of proper regular exercise, increased rate of obesity and other health diseases, shooting stress levels are some of the facts that define the contemporary world's lifestyle. It can be said that in the present era, human beings have got so engrossed in earning money, that they have virtually stopped paying attention to their physical and mental fitness. The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of varied intensity of walking on selected muscular strength, Blood pressure (Systolic) and Blood pressure (Diastolic) variables among middle aged men. To achieve this purpose, sixty men subjects who were not involved in any vigorous physical training programme at the age ranging from 35 to 45 years were selected from in and around Tirunelveli city. The selected subjects were divided into three groups at random with 20 each. In the Twenty men subjects would serve as control group and the remaining Forty would undergo systematic walking training, among forty, twenty for LIG and remaining twenty for HIG under the supervision of researcher. The control group did not undergo any special training programme. The selected subjects were medically examined by a qualified medical person for undergoing the training programme. The scheffe's test was used as post- hoc test to determine which of the paired means differed significantly where the differences in adjusted posttest means resided in univariate ANCOVA among three groups. All of the statistical analysis tests were computed at 0.05 level of significance (P<0.05).