Table 1. General characteristics of participants at baseline. Values are means (±SD).

	Nordic walking (NW)	Conventional walking (CW)	Band-based resistance (REC)
Number	17	16	15
Sex (M/F)	8/9	8/8	5/10
Age (yr)	70.1 (5.3)	68.0 (4.9)	68.0 (5.4)
Height (m)	1.59 (.08)	1.59 (.08)	1.56 (.07)
Body mass (kg)	58.1 (12.9)	60.8 (9.5)	57.7 (6.9)
BMI	23.0 (3.9)	24.2 (3.3)	23.6 (2.0)

BMI, body mass index (mass/height); No test parameter was significantly different between the groups