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 ...