Exercise And High Blood Pressure

A healthy exercise program is based on the principle that every work out asks a little more of your body. For example, let’s say you take up swimming and the first time out you’re able to do a single lap before your body becomes overworked. Through persistence, you’ll gradually discover that a single lap no longer stresses your body and you’re capable of swimming further and further. Eventually, your strength and endurance will improve to such a degree that you’re able to many laps without encountering any fatigue or stress.

This principle applies to any form of exercise you choose to undertake.

Here’s how it affects your blood pressure: extra blood is extracted from the muscles of the body as you exercise. These muscles become very adept at extracting the available oxygen, which in turn means that less oxygenated arterial blood is needed to reach them. As your fitness levels improve, the heart doesn’t have to work as hard because there’s less demand on the heart muscle. Your blood pressure becomes more stable (and lower), and the resting heart rate becomes lower.

If you do need to exert yourself the effects on your cardiovascular system become much less severe than they would have done before you started to get fitter, and your blood pressure is more inclined to stay at a reasonable level.

Significantly it has been found in several studies undertaken that regular increased activity appears to restrain the rise in blood pressure for many people and often reduces arterial hypertension in men and women who beforehand were quite healthy.

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