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When most people think about supporting heart health, they usually think about the big lifestyle pillars: eating better, walking more, managing stress, sleeping well, and following their doctor’s guidance.

Isometric handgrip training is a plain name for a simple action: squeeze a handle at a comfortable, steady effort and hold it. Your arm barely moves.

High blood pressure is one of the largest global health burdens, associated with more than 7 million deaths a year, about 13 in every 100 worldwide.

Isometric handgrip exercise is a form of exercise in which you squeeze a handle and hold a steady, sub-maximal contraction for a set time.

If you have high blood pressure, you might think you need to run marathons or spend hours at the gym to help your heart.

When people think about heart health, blood pressure and cholesterol come to mind first. A factor that gets less attention is vascular flexibility: how readily