For high blood pressure Yahoo answer recommend exercise. When exercising BP would go up .?

Question

For BP Yahoo recommends exercising and medication. When exercising the BP would go up. How can exercising bring down the blood pressure? Can some explain.

Answer 1

exercising trains your body to use your muscles more efficiently. Also when your muscles get used to being used harder, the easier it is to use them when not at max or workout levels. Also the heart and lungs get more efficient at delivering blood and oxygen to your muscles. The more efficient they are the less your heart has to work at this. If your heart has to work hard this is why your BP is up, so when looking at it at your heart working easier to deliver the blood and oxygen your BP will be less.
Yes your BP is up during exercise but when at rest the BP will be less. Of course you should consult your doctor if on a current med to see what would be considered best and safest for you to start your exercise routine.

Answer 2

If you do strenuous exercise without first lowering your blood pressure, you will make your heart muscle do a lot of extra, extra hard work pushing the blood round your body against too much resistance. This can cause your left ventricle to get thicker (Left Ventricular Hypertrophy) and this puts you at a higher risk of a cardiovascular 'event' like a heart attack or stroke and can eventually lead to heart failure. I'm not a doctor and I certainly don't have full understanding and am delighted to be corrected by others. I had the same BP as you, though, and it went undetected for years - or rather uncommented upon. I got the LVH. Only when I'd got my BP down with drugs, did my doctor give the go-ahead for initially MODERATE exercise (but then I'd already got the LVH). To my mind, you shouldn't start doing more than walking without getting proper advice if you possibly can. I wish you all the best on improving your health.

Answer 3

exercise brings everyones pressures up, the difference between hypertensives and normals is that when a hypertensive is at rest the bp isn't.

exercise helps with insulin resistance (a major contributor to hypertension for alot of people) it helps tone and soften the blood vessels which is another way of saying it reduces insulin resistance (cells don't just become resistant to glucose but to minerals and vitamins etc that control bp)

exercise strengthens the heart to be more effiecient (and for those who run or bike alot it can even slow the heart rate down alot over time) some who do moderate exercise can reduce their resting heart rate which if hypertensive can reduce pressures and give the heart longer rest breaks between pumps.

exercise can reduce salt in the system which if a imbalance is present due to lower potassium than sodium, by sweating if one reduces salt and increase potassium via fruits and vegies (avoid supplements) it can help the blood vessels contract and relax instead of just contracting and staying there.

after all you need a chemical reaction to tense the vessels and another chemcial reaction to relax the cells. it is called the sodium potassium battery or pump.

there is also a calcium magnesium reactions to that is why calcium channel blockers work they prevent overreaction of the calcium side of the pump which is the side that causes the contraction while the magnesim is the relaxant.

this is my understanding of it anyhow. I am not a doctor or scientist or anything. that is why I have been endeavoring to incorporate as much fruits and vegies as I cans stand. some days I do better than others, now if I could only reduce cravings for junk food I would be all set. tho I do eat less of them I still find I crave them.

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Answer 4

Regular low or medium intensity exercise will tone up your heart and circulation system - this makes it easier for the heart to pump blood and will lower your blood pressure.
Regular exercise also helps keep your weight down and this will help too

Answer 5

The medication should control your BP, exercising will strengthen your heart and other muscles (diaphragm) that will lessen the burden placed on your heart and arteries to pump blood to your organs/tissues.