Zona Plus-Series 3

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Isometric hand-grip exercises for lower blood pressure are pretty straightforward. They basically consist of squeezing or gripping something for 2 minutes at a time, at about a third of your full grip-strength, and doing this several times. Lowering your blood pressure naturally doesn’t have to be difficult. And it’s difficult not to enjoy feeling healthier and happier and more relaxed! You probably know that regular aerobic/cardio exercise is important for reducing high blood pressure. Doing hand-grip exercises for lower blood pressure could be the easiest way to lower your blood pressure that’s been discovered…. Isometric hand-grip exercise Each step sets out straightforward aims and action plans so that you know what to do and how to do it. And you can take each step at whatever pace suits you – making simple changes to your diet and daily routine as you go.

Aerobic exercise is activity that gets your heart and lungs working harder, and it can be anything from walking to swimming, to raking up leaves or cleaning the floor. Peer-reviewed studies suggest that poor handgrip strength is a powerful predictor of the increased risks of future disability, morbidity, and mortality.

As you enter the actual workout, which is a total of 12 minutes split between 2 sessions on each hand, the Zona alerts you to either squeeze harder or squeeze less. Like any other exercise worth doing, there are plenty of times throughout each session where I feel a burn and want it to be over.

it balances your autonomic nervous system – which regulates all the things you don’t have to think about, including blood pressure The algorithm acts as a personal trainer, and you simply follow the prompts to squeeze harder or less. Recognizing its effectiveness in naturally lowering blood pressure, the Zona Plus has been endorsed by The American Heart Association, the Mayo Clinic, and the Harvard Health Letter as a part of a hypertension management plan. Zona Plus Studies To date, there are more than 20 clinical studies published on the effectiveness of Zona Plus therapy which have appeared in respected, peer-reviewed medical journals, such as: “Journal of Hypertension” and “International Journal of Cardiology.In a study of younger adults, weak handgrip strength was associated with increased risks for incident hypertension, coronary heart disease, and stroke. 11 Anthony W Baross , David A Hodgson , Sarah L Padfield , Ian L Swaine, Reductions in Resting Blood Pressure in Young Adults When Isometric Exercise Is Performed Whilst Walking J Sports Med (Hindawi Publ Corp). 2017 Isometric exercises rely on the principle of “maximum voluntary contraction,” which means you are contracting your muscles but not moving any joints or limbs. This evidence shows the importance of incorporating exercises like that provided by the Zona Plus into your day for better overall cognitive health.

You need something to squeeze though, and there are a range of different devices that you can use for doing handgrip exercises, ranging from the very cheap to the very expensive. What I love most about it is its convenience. I do the workouts while sitting on my couch watching TV or listening to a podcast. A big advantage of doing hand-grip exercises for lower blood pressure is that it doesn’t take a lot of time. You only need to do it for about 12 minutes a day, several times a week, and you can do it pretty much anywhere – standing up, sitting down, watching TV….so it’s a small commitment for potentially impressive results.A systematic review from 2013 highlighted the potential of isometric handgrip training regimens in reducing systolic blood pressure. The meta-analysis showed that isometric handgrip training was superior to endurance training and dynamic resistance training in lowering systolic blood pressure. 6 Veronique A Cornelissen, Neil A Smart, Exercise training for blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis J Am Heart Assoc. 2013 Many of the clinical studies showing the effectiveness of IHG exercise for lowering blood pressure have used the Zona Plus device. According to the makers of the Zona Plus, since it became commercially available, tens of thousands of people have used it, and 9 out of 10 users have lower blood pressure after 6-8 weeks of using it. We also know that hypertension patients also get cognitive benefits from increased handgrip strength. 13 Shenghua Lu , Fabian Herold, Yanjie Zhang , Yuruo Lei, Arthur F Kramer , Can Jiao , Qian Yu, Scott Doig , Jinming Li, Zhe Yan , Jin Kuang, Ting Wang , Liye Zou, Higher Handgrip Strength Is Linked to Better Cognitive Performance in Chinese Adults with Hypertension Brain Sci. 2021