It's individual: Depends on the cause of the high blood pressure. If you're obese, then exercise can help reduce blood pressure when it's combined with good nutrition and weight loss. If you have kidney problems, if you eat a fast food/junk food diet, if you have an extremely stressful lifestyle, or any other cause for hypertension, then exercise won't reduce your blood pressure until you deal with the cause.
Answered 3/23/2015
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Almost immediately: Blood pressure normally drops shortly after exercise as you are cooling off. In order to get it to stay down, however, you need to make a habit of exercising 30 or more minutes a day most days of the week. If you make a habit of staying active, your blood pressure makes of habit of staying lower. See "23 and 1/2 hours" http://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=auains6higo.
Answered 1/21/2020
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Exercise and BP: You may see changes in a few weeks after starting exercise and these will continue and may increase over time, but it needs to be aerobic exercise done for 20 to 30 minutes minimum.
Answered 11/28/2017
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