High blood pressure exercise is an important part of naturally lowering your blood pressure to more acceptable levels. Of course, done incorrectly it can be a big risk if you already suffering from high blood pressure, and I must stress early on that any major exercise changes should be done in consultation with your doctor - but now that that's out of the way, let's look at how high blood pressure exercise can help you.

The first thing to note is that the type of exercise you need to focus on is cardiovascular exercise. In other words, there's no point focussing on building muscles like Arnie, it's aerobic exercise that you need to do. No, not aerobics, aerobic - which is exercise that raises the heartbeat (although yes, aerobics does do that).

Cardiovascular exercise helps because it keeps the arteries supple and prevents from constricting - offsetting the normal effect of aging which is for them to harden and constrict. This means that, through exercising you make it easier for your body to pump blood around your body at all times, thereby reducing your blood pressure.

So what kind of exercises should you do? Well the easiest one by far is just walking more. Yes, that's right! If you walk to the local shops instead of taking a car, take the steps instead of the lift, and so forth, you will very quickly make a big difference to your body. Other kinds of good cardiovascular exercise include:

- jogging
- swimming
- cycling
- rowing machines

Ok I know I know, these all sound quite scary if you haven't exercised for a while, but if you start off slowly by walking more often, then stretch the length of the walks out, then over time you'll get to a point where you are ready to move onto these other exercises.