Walking is always good. Just walking for 5 minutes also helps in reducing the BP. Climbing the stairs on a daily basis is also good. Exercise this way or that way always helps.
Doing as little as five minutes of exercise daily through physical activities like stair-climbing and uphill walking can help lower your blood pressure, says new research published says.
Researchers from the University of Sydney and University College London studied the data of about 15,000 people who wore activity trackers over a 24-hour period.
The researchers split the daily activity into six categories: sleep,sedentary behaviour such as sitting, slow walking, fast walking,standing, and more vigorous exercise such as running, cycling, or
stair climbing.
The research team used statistical modelling to determine what would happen if a person changed various amounts of one activity for another.
Adding just five minutes of activity a day could lower systolic blood pressure by 0.68 points and diastolic blood pressure by 0.54 points, researchers said. But in general walking for around half an hour is always right. It reduces the sugar level also. It controls the diabetes.
