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There is a reason why your school teachers and parents always emphasized the importance of physical exercise. Regular exercise can help you prevent high blood pressure and a host of other such lifestyle induced health complications. Most bodily activity demand blood flow through your arteries to your heart. But the lesser amount of physical activity you do, the lesser the arteries are used leading to the eventual weakening of both.

If your blood pressure is under control, physical activity can help maintain it so as you grow older. For patients, exercise can have the dual benefit of lowering both your blood pressure and weight that are deemed necessary for any lifestyle disease recovery. But don’t expect an overnight change in how you feel about your body. Research has showed that it takes nearly one to three months of daily exercise to have a positive impact on your health. And the longer you stick to helpful physical activity, the more durable long-term benefits you stand to win from the effort.

Aerobic exercises are considered to be best for getting yr heart rate up and improving lung function.

Popular forms of aerobic exercises include:

• Walking (outdoors or treadmill)
• Jogging
• Climbing stairs
• Sweeping floors
• Bicycling
• Swimming
• Jumping rope/ obstacle courses
• Dancing

30 minutes is the prescribed period of aerobic activity required every day for a healthy lifestyle. You can take a break on weekends and spread out the 30 minutes throughout your day if you cannot manage that amount of activity at one go.

But before starting on an exercise regime, you need to consult your doctor if:

• You are above 40 (men) or above 50 (woman)
• Smoke regularly
• Have an acute health condition, like high blood pressure or cholesterol
• Past history of cardiac ailments
• Genealogical history of cardiac problems under age 55
• Physically overweight or obese
• Strange pains in your chest or dizziness with exertion
• On medication from other physical complexities

You should also keep these general guidelines in mind in order to minimize the possibility of injuries:

• Do a small practice session before starting the exercise regimen (Warm up)
• Your body isn’t a machine motor. Rest and recuperate after you exercise
• For the same reason as above, be careful with the intensity of workouts

Stop and immediately consult your doctor in case of following symptoms during exercise:

• Pain or constriction anywhere in your chest
• You feel faint
• Pain in any limb/ jaw
• Acute shortage of breath
• Irregular pulse/ heartbeat
• Too much fatigue

Please try to avoid self-medication and self-examination as far as possible. Diagnosing high-blood pressure invariably involves regular clinical tests with consistent results. You can also trust the readings of the at-home monitoring devices, before your bout of physical activity every day. Only accurate readings can predict the course of your condition, or improvement, if any.

Sera Filson is a writer, health enthusiast, and professional student who’s currently pursing a B.A. in Business Management. When she’s not writing, exercising, or studying, she enjoys reading about lipsuction and laser lipo.