How To Exercise If You Have High Blood Pressure

How should I exercise if I have high blood pressure?

If you have high blood pressure you should exercise cautiously, at least in the beginning. Give a physician an opportunity to evaluate your situation before you start the exercise program. They may choose to do a treadmill stress test on you and take a look at how well your heart functions prior to starting the exercise program. And doing that they can also take a look at what happens to your blood pressure while you are exercising. Does it go up? We would expect your high blood pressure would increase to some degree while you are exercising but in the long run, the benefit from the aerobic exercise would be to decrease your high blood pressure which is an excellent way to help you manage your high blood pressure. But it's key that in the beginning you are evaluated if you have high blood pressure to make sure that you have a physician tell you that you can safely start an exercise program before you start it.