What Do Jogging Tips Have to
Do with Normal Blood Pressure?

I should have had these jogging tips when I first began to jog. I'll give them to you so you can avoid my pitfalls of yesteryear. More importantly though, I'll explain how jogging exercise and hypertension relate.

Jogging is good for your heart and blood vessels, but not good for your joints, ligaments and tendons. Feet, ankles, knees and hips take a beating from jogging.

So if you're going to jog, you should learn how to lessen the impact jogging has on these joints. You can't get jogging benefits if you can't run due to a bum knee.

1. Buy properly fitted top of the line running shoes with ankle support and cushioned soles.
2. Do warm up exercises before starting to jog.
3. Do not jog on slippery or uneven surfaces - running on smooth dry grass is best if you can find it.
4. Learn to run with smooth long strides rather than short choppy steps.
5. Don't run with toes pointed in or pointed out - run straight.
6. Run with good posture, not bent over.
7. Practice form (4-6) while jogging until its easy.
8. In winter dress warmly.
9. Don't try to beat your time or keep pace with someone else - jogging is not racing.
10.If you feel strain on your joints, tendons, ligaments or muscles, slow down until the strain is gone.
11.Start and end each jogging session with a 50 yard walk.
12.Have a health reason for jogging - I suggest maintaining normal blood pressure as you grow older.

I violated each one of these tips about 20 years ago and ruptured my diaphragm. I don't want you, my friends, to end up with injuries.

Now, let's look at the benefits of a proper jog.

Why am I focusing on maintaining normal blood pressure? Because eighty percent of us will have high blood pressure if we live long enough and don't do anything about it.

Jogging is one of the tools we can use to forestall or eliminate hypertension. The first tool always is a proper high blood pressure diet, which I recommend highly that you look into.

The second tool is exercise, specifically here, jogging exercise, which will tend to do the following:

1. Raise your pulse during your jog and, thereby, push more blood through blood vessels per unit time - this increases the dilation of the vessels and lowers blood pressure.
2. Increase the capacity of the blood vessels to carry blood, which also promotes lower blood pressure.
3. Make you sleep better - more rest tends toward normal blood pressure.
4. Lessen the effects of physical and emotional stress, making it easier to maintain normal blood pressure.
5. Promote weight loss through burning calories and improving diet efficiency - reducing weight is key to lowering blood pressure

So there you are, friends. Exercise and hypertension mean following our jogging tips for good health and normal blood pressure.

Now, if you think jogging is not your cup of tea, take a look at some other exercising you can do.

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