Clinical trial · Supplements / medicine · 26 Oct 2026
Once-weekly wall squats held a short-term drop in systolic pressure
Source: ScienceDaily
What the research found
ScienceDaily reported on 26 October 2026 a BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine trial from the BMJ Group. One hundred adults, mean age 37.4, with systolic pressure of 120–140 mmHg and no hypertension diagnosis, did four weeks of home wall squats three times a week. For the next four weeks, groups continued three times, twice, once, or not at all. By eight weeks, three weekly sessions were linked to a 13.73 mmHg average systolic drop from the start; twice weekly was 6.95 and once weekly was 6.56, and both still differed from the control group on systolic pressure. The group that stopped no longer differed from control. The release does not give the age range or the sex split, only the mean age. The maintenance phase lasted four weeks. This is a randomized trial, not a reason to stop blood-pressure medicine. Not medical advice.
Evidence level: Clinical trial. This is among the stronger kinds of evidence, but one study rarely settles a question.
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