{"id":674756,"date":"2026-11-04T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674756\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:42:07","slug":"just-a-few-minutes-of-this-simple-exercise-may-lower-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674756\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a few minutes of this simple exercise may lower blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z4LH7TZV2ZHNHGJ3VW2P2DJOBY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">If it feels like current events are conspiring to raise your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/02\/26\/what-blood-pressure-does-to-body\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/02\/26\/what-blood-pressure-does-to-body\/\">blood pressure<\/a>, now might be a good time to go sit against a wall for a few minutes. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"232GISVZSVHQHEP6RHHO3D6GVA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopensem.bmj.com\/content\/12\/3\/e003172\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>, several minutes of wall sits \u2014 also called wall squats \u2014 three times a week effectively lowered people\u2019s blood pressures over time. Those gains lingered even if people cut back to doing only a few wall sits once or twice a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it feels like current events are conspiring to raise your blood pressure, now might be a good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[499,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-674756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}