Took my BP last night and it was 152/93! Then took it twice more 147/91 & 143/87. Not good!

Never had high blood pressure in my life. So will monitor it over the next couple of weeks and see how it goes. MY CV fitness is shote & I only took it as I have noticed the last week or so I've been getting breathless quicker than normal.

blimey mate- any reason do you think? change in eating, stress etc? or are you depressed as Blair was fired?

That's nog good mate. My CV is pretty whacked out at the mo. Also was breathless quite easily a couple of weeks ago but seems to be better recently. I think it was possibly stressed related in my case but not sure...

Not sure guys, I do have a cold coming on and there are one or two things going on at work at the moment. But like I say I've never had high BP before & I've certainly had one or two stressful situations over the years.

I guess I'll just have to see how it goes over the next couple of weeks. I need to keep an eye on it though as my father and everyone of his brothers died of heart disease in there 50's! Mind you they were all heavy smoking, heavy drinking Oirish men lol.

def good idea mate- another sign is when you get up quickly and you head spins and you see stars - as the pressure [high or low] has to cope with the sudden change.

hopefully it's just something not serious and will get back in line.

kp1512 wrote:def good idea mate- another sign is when you get up quickly and you head spins and you see stars - as the pressure [high or low] has to cope with the sudden change.

hopefully it's just something not serious and will get back in line.

My BP is low - rushing upstairs makes me giddy and I have to sit with my head between my knees to get the blood back to my brain... I'm not sure if low BP affects training - I suppsoe it must in some ways. What I find odd of myself is I can have had plenty of sleep, have a quad espresso and often(in fact very ofetn) will find myself yawning between sets when training. Can't say if it affects me any as I've always done it....

hope it levels out dude

Keep off the viagra you randy old goat!

I'm no doctor, but if you have high blood pressure, why don't you just let some of it out?

haha, surely that would be a quick solution! I always used to get nose bleeds which i put down to high blood pressure, blood used to pour out!

the WHO recommendation of 120/80 is purely a guide, any person who trains can expect to have a systolic (higher pressure) greater than 120 anyway, it is not uncommon for athletes to have a systolic of 150/160 as since the heart is a muscle, it will undoubtedly hypertrophy due to the demand that is put under.

caveat- due to exercise, it is expected that BP should be lower due to the trained state, not always the case

the figure to be concerned about is the diastolic- recent guidelines suggest that anything above 85mmol is prehypertensive, anything over 90 is categorically hyper, especially in the aging person.

worth doing some ambulatory measurements- and ensuring the correct cuff size is used, as that can give barking readings in itself