Apr 19, 2019
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Here’s a quickie exercise routine that can lower your blood pressure, reduce your risk of heart attack, boost your fitness, and sharpen your brainpower. The best part is that there is no weight lifting, jogging, or sweating involved.
Integrative physiologists at the University of Colorado reported to the recent Experimental Biology scientific meeting that exercising your muscles of breathing just 5 minutes a day with an inhalation device that can vary the resistance you breathe against has all of these beneficial effects.
Inhalation exercise devices are available on Amazon for $30 to $50. You may want to try using this so-called Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) using your blood pressure and level of fitness for aerobic exercise as outcome measures to see how it is working for you.
Buffing up your respiratory muscles is a wonderful idea, but it is no substitute for consistent, aerobic exercise. I highly recommend stationary recumbent cycling as a form of aerobic exercise that is oh so easy on your joints and back.
University of Colorado at Boulder. "Novel 5-minute workout improves blood pressure, may boost brain function." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 April 2019. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190408161643.htm.
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