high blood pressure? | If you've been diagnosed with high blood pressure (hypertension), your doctor has probably suggested you do some exercise. But surely, you think, this won't help because you'll get puffed out, then you'll get stressed and you might actually feel worse! |
Even if you don't have hypertension, regular aerobic exercise makes it less likely that you will suffer from high blood pressure. |
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| How does regular exercise lower blood pressure? Although researchers are still studying the causes, exercise appears to relax blood vessels, decrease certain hormone levels, and improve kidney function. |
When a person walks briskly, cycles, jogs, swims, or engages in other aerobic activities, the blood pressure rises. For 30 to 120 minutes afterward, however, the blood pressure falls below normal. Over time, as the exercise is repeated, there is growing evidence that a long-lasting reduction in resting blood pressure can be experienced. |
| Once you stop exercise training, however, blood pressure quickly returns to its initial untrained level. In other words, the blood pressure-lowering effect of exercise training depends on a regular schedule of activity. |
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911 |
| best exercise for high blood pressure | The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) established that effective lowering of blood pressure can be gained with moderate intensity exercise three to five times a week for 20 to 60 minutes per session. exercise such as brisk walking may have an even greater blood pressure-lowering effect than higher intensity training like running. |
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