I have recently purchased a Resperate machine and have been using it daily for around a week. Yesterday evening, as I sat slowly breathing in and out, I pondered over the exercise I take. I have a small office in a nearby town and walk there and back every day - about 45 minutes each way. By the end of each leg of the walk I am slightly breathless and I believe this is in line with the sort of exercise a high-blood pressure sufferer should be taking.

But that's the problem ... the exercise makes me breathe faster whereas Resperate is designed to make me breathe slower.

If a reduction in my blood pressure can be achieved by reducing my breathing rate, is taking exercise counter-productive?

Or is using Resperate diminishing the benefits of the exercise?

Do they cancel each other out? Or are the two perfectly compatible?

I'm confused ...

I'm a fellow Resperate user, and I recently read a little blurb about this - in this case it wasn't about the increased breathing of exercise but about the fact that, while we exercise, our blood pressure increases - so someone was asking a doctor, why is an increase in bp during exercise a good thing, but otherwise an increase in bp is a bad thing? The doctor replied that the mechanism by which your bp increases during exercise is very different from the mechanism by which increases it under stress, from eating salt, etc. - i.e. different parts of the body are involved and it's a very different effect. Sorry I can't remember more about this! But I bet that it's the same sort of thing, if you're breathing fast at rest due to stress, bad habit, etc. it has a detrimental effect, but if you're breathing fast during exercise it's a good thing.

Bingo. Thanks Diane. (please note that Diane is not an InterCure employee, just a RESPeRATE User that has done her homework)
Dr Rowena actually responded to a similar question, which could be found here: http://www.resperate.com/drrowena.aspx#Diet

I am using RESPeRATE in the morning and would like to start exercising as well. Should I use RESPeRATE before or after exercising?
Posted: 3/23/2007
When you use the RESPeRATE is really up to personal preference. That being said, I use the RESPeRATE after I do my exercises as part of my cool down routine. Exercise stimulates the body and I find use of the RESPeRATE calming and relaxing.

Breathe Easy!
Marguerite (IMG:http://forum.resperate.com/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

Marguerite, the link above takes me to the company home page. No links there to drrowena. I'd like to hear more about Diet/relaxation relationship.
Easy Brezey!
Dave

Oops! Found rowena down at the bottom of the page. Duh.