minimum walking time?

I am a complete begginer at working out although i move a lot and run around at my job (I'm an outdoor preschool teacher) and walk long distances to and from work but I wanted to walk for a workout just now (I was alternating between jogging and walking) and after i felt it was forever i looked and it was just for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and i was completely out of breath so i stopped. is 4:33 that ok? will it be of any benefit? not necessarily weight loss? i want to gradually increase the time maybe tomorrow 5 minutes or something i don't know- help?

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The rule of thumb is 150 minutes a week. If you can't do that right now, that's ok. Make that a goal. Another rule of thumb is to only increase your minutes, each week, by less than 10%. some people think 5% is optimum. I think you must have meant that you jogged for 4 minutes and were out of breath. That's ok. Try just jogging for 1 minute and then walking for 2 to start off with. oh, and try jogging slower. I'm aslo a big advocate for the "couch to 5K" program. Google it. It might be just the thing for you.