An extra five minutes of exercise per day could help to lower blood pressure

Medical Xpress / University College London / Circulation ^ | Nov. 7, 2024 | Joanna M. Blodgett et al

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Can you put extra exercise "in the bank"? In 2024 to-date, I've gone on 112 hikes, hiked 300 miles, total duration 162 hours, climbed 39,439 vertical feet, and burned 90,500 calories (according to the trackers). Here are a few photos from my exercise hikes in Canada, Washington, Idaho, and California:

[NEMDF]

Nicely done!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thank you! I really enjoy the outdoors as you can tell. Plus retirement gives me so many more opportunities to be outside.

[RoosterRedux]

Try adding exercise to it. Start slowly and steadily increase the intensity over time.

I have a friend who walks but only recently started walking hills. By shifting to hills (stairs would do the same thing), she has seen great improvement in her overall fitness and lowered BP.

[SisterK]

beautiful

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I’m not sure I understand you. Are you saying I should add exercise to the biking that I’m already doing?

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

That’s awesome! I hate exercise as well. Even though biking does help with my blood pressure, it actually doesn’t provide the motivation I need to keep it up. The reason I keep it up is that I feel unbelievably amazing for the whole rest of the day when I do it in the morning. I feel like I’m floating on a cloud. I’m extremely relaxed. I don’t think I could keep this up if I didn’t get that feeling from it.

I like your solution! That’s awesome!

[RoosterRedux]

Nope. Sorry, I had forgotten about your biking. I should have look upthread and refreshed my memory before commenting.

If you are already doing high-intensity and endurance workouts, that should certainly be enough.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Thanks for clarifying. I hate exercise. I don’t want to do any more if I don’t have to, lol!