WHAT IS YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE?

PHIL HERNON · Feb 20, 2006

MINE IS 124/67

draven · Feb 20, 2006

3 weeks ago

122/ 63 ---- was supp free a while though

Big A · Feb 20, 2006

Up and down between 110/70 and 120/80

dragonfire101 · Feb 20, 2006

110/70 and 120/80 like A. Thats not on anything though. When I was it usually is 130-140/90

Conan21 · Feb 20, 2006

back in august mine was something like 124/72

3 weeks ago it was 140/102

last week it was 140/90

And for the life of me can not understand why this raised like this.

Juice Freak · Feb 20, 2006

Yeah bro, I'm right there with you, 140/90 somethin. Tightened up my diet now so hopefully it'll lower soon.

thundergod · Feb 20, 2006

Conan21 said:
back in august mine was something like 124/72

3 weeks ago it was 140/102

last week it was 140/90

And for the life of me can not understand why this raised like this.

Keep an eye on that pressure bro. 140/102 is too high. My pressure is around 124/68 and my resting heart rate is about 64.

PHIL HERNON · Feb 20, 2006

I know a better question

How high are you willing to let it get to look like a pro BBer? Some guys have genetics to look that way without any BP probs, others cant. Thats called genetics. How much damage is it worth is up to the individual. I hate to see guys come on here and not care about it until they have a scare and then want all this info on the subject and we are supposed to be sympathetic?

miketasher · Feb 20, 2006

BP

Ive had mine checked several times on and off. Always 105-110/60's. My wife works in the medical field and mine stays below hers. Neither one of us can figure out why. Good problem to have.

I am 35 yrs old with approx 12-15 yrs off and on use. Maybe playing basketball twice a week helps keep it down.

thebrick · Feb 20, 2006

Well, I am no young guy and I do have many years of the juice behind me. I am clean now except for the doc prescribed HRT therapy. In my physical last week I was 130/90 in one arm and 140/90 in the other. The doctor says that is too high and will be starting me on BP meds. Just don't know which one yet. We are waiting on blood test results first. He told me that doctors are more aggressive in treating high BP these days. I am increasing the cardio to every AM too. Sometimes its not as nice a picture as you hoped...

Crowler · Feb 20, 2006

128/70 while using supplements.

CROWLER

Vander_V · Feb 20, 2006

Crowler said:
128/70 while using supplements.

CROWLER

Yea so anyways how much food were you consuming ? how much did you weigh? how did you train ? so i take it you were on creatine lmao. funny bro

Crowler · Feb 20, 2006

Just asked my training partner.

His BP is around 132/75 while on supplements.

I can actually take the BP of some of the guys at the gym. Easy to tell which ones are on supplements. Should be interesting.

CROWLER

AWN2004 · Feb 20, 2006

at my heaviest it was 147/96. That was two years ago and Ive never been that high since. Right now its about 105-110/60-70.

Vander_V · Feb 20, 2006

AWN2004 said:
at my heaviest it was 147/96. That was two years ago and Ive never been that high since. Right now its about 105-110/60-70.

thanks for being honest your a good bro AWN.

Now my question is if lets say im at 148/86 now when we train lets say leg day how much do you think it rises just curious.

BuffD · Feb 20, 2006

Mine was 110/55 last time I had it checked. That's actually a little too low. I'm on as well but since I've cut everything WAY down I'm not bloated at all. Makes a huge difference.

Crowler · Feb 20, 2006

BuffD said:
Mine was 110/55 last time I had it checked. That's actually a little too low. I'm on as well but since I've cut everything WAY down I'm not bloated at all. Makes a huge difference.

Agreed that extra water with the puffy/bloated look really makes my BP go up.

CROWLER

Conan21 · Feb 20, 2006

damn

mine is worse than everyones

all I was on was HRT from my doctor at 200 mgs/wk.

I did gain a good amount of weight though in 5 months.
how much of a factor does Stress, w8 gain, lack of sleep, diet change have to do with this?

i was on 5 times as much in the past with no BP issues.

Kaiser · Feb 20, 2006

PHIL HERNON said:
How high are you willing to let it get to look like a pro BBer? Some guys have genetics to look that way without any BP probs, others cant. Thats called genetics. How much damage is it worth is up to the individual. I hate to see guys come on here and not care about it until they have a scare and then want all this info on the subject and we are supposed to be sympathetic?

Well, I can say this, I never wanted to become a ProBB. But, as I stated before, I had a mild stroke in the gym where I lost partial vision for a period of time which has been the nightmare of my lifetime. Granted I was not on anything for a real long time at least a year, but if it had anything to do with it, which it probably did if I am honest with myself, I definately would have been more selective on the amounts I have taken in the past. And believe it or not, I didn't really take that much. As a matter of fact, I never stacked 2 at one time until a year ago. My favorite at the time was probably TestE 500mg/wk. My doctor also explained to me that just plain "clean" heavy lifters hold a 10% higher BP than people who don't lift for weight on average. Also, part of my problem was I never did cardio and I didn't breath correctly. I was stupid not to bring the engine up to par with the body of the car. I guess I was too young and thought that cardio was "taking away" from the mass I was trying to build. To this day, when I hear someone in the forums tell a newbie to cut down on the cardio just so he can gain a couple more lbs (of water weight mind you) I want to jump through my fucking monitor and choke the person who posted it. Now, I do alot of cardio, take OTC supplements for BP and make sure I breath correctly while lifting.

thebrick · Feb 20, 2006

Kaiser said:
Also, part of my problem was I never did cardio and I didn't breath correctly. I was stupid not to bring the engine up to par with the body of the car. I guess I was too young and thought that cardio was "taking away" from the mass I was trying to build. To this day, when I hear someone in the forums tell a newbie to cut down on the cardio just so he can gain a couple more lbs (of water weight mind you) I want to jump through my fucking monitor and choke the person who posted it. Now, I do alot of cardio, take OTC supplements for BP and make sure I breath correctly while lifting.

I went down that same road too. BB's fall into that thinking (me included) that they are healthy because they LOOK good. You feel strong, people are complimenting your build, etc. Don't wait on a reality check before you take care of it. Shit can hit anybody with absolutely no warning. We need to adjust our thinking about how we feel about the way we look. Quality muscle is good, getting bigger at all cost and retaining a lot of water is not.