Blood pressure goes up during and immediately after exercise, as your heart works hard to get blood pumped to muscles. How high blood pressure increases and how long it stays there is individual, but on average, it should return to normal in just a few minutes.
If you want to measure your blood pressure changes after exercise, you can purchase a blood pressure cuff to use at home. Shah recommends waiting until your heart rate returns to normal. Your normal heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times the heart beats per minute at rest. Find your pulse either on your wrist or neck and count the number of beats for 60 seconds when you first wake up.
This is your baseline heart rate. So, how much can exercise actually lower your blood pressure—and for how long? A lot depends on the type of exercise you do cardiovascular exercise versus using free weights, for example , how long you do it, your exercise intensity, your overall physical condition, and your normal blood pressure at rest. The American College of Sports Medicine ACSM reports that aerobic exercise—exercise that gets your heart rate up, such as brisk walking, swimming, or biking—can lower blood pressure by 5 to 7 mmHg in those with hypertension.
That lower blood pressure occurs shortly after exercise and can last a full 24 hours afterward. This is called post-exercise hypotension. One study found that this kind of exercise lowered blood pressure by nearly 4 mmHg. But post-exercise reductions in blood pressure are usually temporary unless you consistently exercise. Exercise can lower blood pressure in people with normal or elevated blood pressure levels.
How do you know if you have low blood pressure? Low blood pressure can sometimes signal something serious, like internal blood loss, and the dizziness that often accompanies it can lead to falls and other accidents. Blood pressure levels usually rise during exercise. Accordingly, they should be regularly checked for accuracy 6—12 months. Low to moderate intensity exercise BP can be recorded with greater accuracy than at maximal intensity due to less artefact. The guide to measuring BP before, during and after exercise described below, and summarised in Table 3 , is a compilation of recommendations from peak professional bodies 3 , 11 , 58 , 71 , 72 and basic BP measurement principles.
Excessive pressure of the stethoscope should be prevented as this can produce sounds below DBP due to distortion of the artery. There is a potential for 'regression to the mean' by which the challenges of exercise BP measurement results in estimation toward normative values.
Measure pretest resting BP in the supine position, as well as the posture of exercise. Minimise error by avoiding talking with the subject during the pre-exercise BP measures and ensure the arm is supported with the cuff at heart level for all measures. The subject should be advised to relax all tension in the arm and shoulder when measuring BP, because isometric muscle contraction may increase recorded BP values.
However, more frequent measurement may be needed with higher risk subjects. The BP operator should keep good verbal contact with the exercising subject to gauge an estimation of time to stopping exercise due to fatigue, and take measures of BP accordingly.
Objective measures of effort such as the Borg scale administered in the final seconds of each exercise level is useful to guide the amount of time left within a stage to measure BP. Subjects can steady themselves by lightly holding the front or side rails of the treadmill, but should not grip tightly as this can reduce workload by supporting body weight. General BP operator principles are summarised in Table 4 and Figure 2.
Example set up for appropriate blood pressure BP measurement by manual auscultation during exercise stress testing. Aerobic exercise is an excellent modality for exposing BP abnormalities and serious underlying disease that may not be evident under resting conditions.
Thus, an important component of clinical exercise stress testing is vigilant care to correctly measure BP using a standardized protocol with appropriately validated equipment. Abnormal exercise BP responses can then be acted on with confidence. Although a significant body of evidence indicates that exercise hypotension is a serious sign of disease, there are several evidence gaps with respect to exercise hypertension.
With millions of exercise stress tests performed internationally each year, accurate exercise BP measures offer additional clinical information as well as opportunity to improve patient care above and beyond other conventional exercise-stress test parameters. Greater diagnostic sensitivity of treadmill versus cycle exercise testing of asymptomatic men with coronary artery disease.
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It does not fluctuate significantly throughout the day, or in response to outside influences. During cardiovascular exercise, this value may even decrease. Long-term factors that may lead to hypertension include smoking, hardening of the arteries called Arteriosclerosis , having excess body weight, eating large amounts of salt, taking certain medications, and being exposed to chronic stress. People who have high blood pressure are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease which includes stroke and heart failure, kidney disease, and all-cause mortality.
High blood pressure means that the cardiovascular system has to work much harder in order to circulate blood throughout the body. Regular cardiovascular exercise, eating a low-salt, low-fat diet, and maintaining a healthy body weight are ways that one can optimize blood pressure values.
Blood pressure values are actually reduced for up to three hours after completing a cardiovascular exercise session! There are several types of medications that can be taken. Calcium channel blockers act to dilate blood vessels, thus decreasing peripheral resistance. The effect of high blood pressure hypertension has several well-established negative health implications.
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