Current Opinion on Weight Lifting and Blood Pressure

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Anyone have some good recent studies on the matter? I’m under the impression more recent studies have shown it to be beneficial for blood pressure. Is this accurate?

Mog16

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Exercise helps some. Your diet and lifestyle helps more.

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It generally helps, with a few exceptions:
If you’re in a high stress environment all the time you probably need something different then a powerlifting & all sets to failure approach.

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any arm over 13 inches relaxed circumference requires an xlarge cuff to measure pressure or else it will be artificially high.

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[quote]schultzie wrote:
any arm over 13 inches relaxed circumference requires an xlarge cuff to measure pressure or else it will be artificially high.[/quote]

interesting…

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[quote]schultzie wrote:
any arm over 13 inches relaxed circumference requires an xlarge cuff to measure pressure or else it will be artificially high.[/quote]

My arm is 16 and the things at the mall measures my BP at 90/60 - 100/60 routinely.

Now methinks I’m going to die of lack of bloodflow to the head if my BP is actually lower than that…

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[quote]silverhydra wrote:

[quote]schultzie wrote:
any arm over 13 inches relaxed circumference requires an xlarge cuff to measure pressure or else it will be artificially high.[/quote]

My arm is 16 and the things at the mall measures my BP at 90/60 - 100/60 routinely.

Now methinks I’m going to die of lack of bloodflow to the head if my BP is actually lower than that…
[/quote]

i would consider a doctor…

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[quote]fighting_fires wrote:

[quote]silverhydra wrote:

[quote]schultzie wrote:
any arm over 13 inches relaxed circumference requires an xlarge cuff to measure pressure or else it will be artificially high.[/quote]

My arm is 16 and the things at the mall measures my BP at 90/60 - 100/60 routinely.

Now methinks I’m going to die of lack of bloodflow to the head if my BP is actually lower than that…
[/quote]

i would consider a doctor…[/quote]

Why?

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[quote]fighting_fires wrote:

[quote]silverhydra wrote:

[quote]schultzie wrote:
any arm over 13 inches relaxed circumference requires an xlarge cuff to measure pressure or else it will be artificially high.[/quote]

My arm is 16 and the things at the mall measures my BP at 90/60 - 100/60 routinely.

Now methinks I’m going to die of lack of bloodflow to the head if my BP is actually lower than that…
[/quote]

i would consider a doctor…[/quote]

I would consider that his arm isn’t 16", especially when relaxed. Cuffs that are too small cause you to get a HIGHER reading, not a lower one.