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Stretching Can Be Better Than Walking to Lower High Blood Pressure, Study Finds
CLARE WATSON
18 JANUARY 2021
Whether you re striding into the new year resolved to up your daily step count or keen to lift some weights, you might want to think about adding some stretching to your day, too.
New research suggests that stretching might be more effective than brisk walking at lowering high blood pressure for people with hypertension. Everyone thinks that stretching is just about stretching your muscles, said Phil Chilibeck, who studies biomechanics and human movement (kinesiology) at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. But when you stretch your muscles, you re also stretching all the blood vessels that feed into the muscle, including all the arteries.