Four Walks a Day
If you’re exercising to combat borderline high blood pressure (and you should be!) new research suggests that smaller spurts of activity throughout the day, such as walking, are even more beneficial than one longer episode of exercise. Published in the September 2006 Journal of Hypertension, the study compared the effectiveness of four ten-minute exercise sessions on a treadmill throughout the day to a single 40 minute workout in 20 people.
According to the Reuters report of the research, “The shorter workouts compared to the single longer workout may have done better job of restoring the balance of the nerves that control how blood pressure responds to daily demands, the researchers suggest.” And thus, both the systolic and the diastolic blood pressure of the participants stayed lower longer after the series of shorter sessions.
Ten minutes four times a day? You can do this!
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