Does lifting weights lower blood pressure in the long run?
I know that when you lift weights, you get a temporary increase in blood pressure. But over the long run, does weight training ultimately lower your blood pressure?
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Initially, during the exercise, blood presure is initially increased, but the after effects of prolonged weight lifting loweres blood preeure due to increased vasodilation(increased opening size in the veins and arteries-easier blood flow). Visit naturescorner.com,my website.
working out in general does reduce blood pressure on the long run. lifting weights in particular is not the best way to condition the body. that is because you put the muscles in static exercise, as opposed to swimming, running and the likes. In the latter conditions, your cardiovascular system in trained to endure and work more efficiently. in the case of wt lifting, you strain your muscles for a brief period of time and that’s it, you hardly even move. not very effective you see
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There is no evidence backing up the fact that weight lifting reduces blood pressure, any reason the blood pressure might go down would be due to the movement the body makes while changing the weights. Blood pressure is reduced with Aerobic activity, as the heart is trained to be more efficient in pumping the blood around the body. Weight lifting does not increase heart levels to the degree that intense aerobic activity would.
Razwell, you don’t know anything about spelling, or health for that matter, maybe you should go back to posting absolutely irrelevant details about cholesterol that no one really seems to care about.