High-Resistance Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) exercises your breathing muscles. Participants who used the device had higher levels of nitric oxide, which widens the blood vessels.

Strength training isn’t just for biceps. It may also provide support for the muscles that help us breathe to reduce blood pressure. A daily dose for six weeks of high-resistance inspiratory muscle ...

Strength training is a well-established way to boost the capabilities of the body's many muscle groups, and the same may well be true of those that facilitate breathing. A new study has provided the ...

Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as "strength training for your breathing muscles" lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular health as well as, or even ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado-Boulder just discovered a quick and easy way to regulate blood pressure — a problem that afflicts about 108 million or 45% of people in the U.S. and can ...

Despite the myriad known benefits of exercise, many middle-aged and older adults struggle to meet physical activity recommendations. New research finds potential for high-resistance inspiratory muscle ...

If you are alive, you are almost certainly breathing. Breathing is an automatic process — something the body generally manages to do all by itself, as intuitive as your heart beating. Very few times ...

Philadelphia (April 2, 2022)—Despite the myriad known benefits of exercise, many middle-aged and older adults struggle to meet physical activity recommendations. New research finds potential for ...

Cardiovascular disease is the world's leading cause of death and high blood pressure is a major risk factor. About 65 percent of American adults have high blood pressure but not even 40 percent are ...

High blood pressure creeps up as you age. It affects over 65% of adults older than 50 in the U.S. and is one of the biggest risk factors for heart attacks and strokes. The usual advice is to walk more ...

Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as "strength training for your breathing muscles" lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular health as well as, or even ...

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