It is true that people who work out regularly have the lowest risk of developing high blood pressure. It is also true that the more strenuous the workout, the better a person’s chances are for dropping high blood pressure naturally.
However, a new study looking at a certain kind of sport has shown that even the most dedicated athletes are not immune from hypertension and that how you work out is as important as how much.
In fact, this one workout/sport may even cause high blood pressure.
Recently, a study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association looking at first-year student athletes at the university level. Specifically, they looked at health markers for football players.
[adrotate group=”5″]What they found was that first-year players were at much increased risk of high blood pressure, many meeting the criteria for diagnosis of pre-hypertension and hypertension.
However, a more unsettling trend also emerged. Researchers found that 83% of the Linemen had already developed hypertension, even though only about 15% of the hypertensive players had been diagnosed.
While some may attribute the Linemen’s size and the fact that they have a higher concentration of central body fat to the increase in blood pressure, researchers were quick to point out that even Linemen who didn’t gain weight developed hypertension at a much higher statistically relevant rate than non-players.
Surprisingly though, college players on average had higher incidents of high blood pressure than pro-football players, which may indicate it isn’t the sport itself but maybe some other factors associated with it.
These findings point to the unique stress college players have- limited time to perform (4 years as opposed to a whole career at the pro level), academic hurdles to remain eligible, and a sometimes unhealthy tendency for some athletes to indulge in alcohol and binge drinking.
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EXERCISE.
One recent documentary on those who go ski-ing, revealed that this particular ski-resort had on average 25 injuries a day. From bruising, to broken bones which are quite common, with the occasional more serious injuries causing a near death situation. Ambulances, helicopters, and the subsequent loss of work, and the cost of hospital treatments, etc, add up to a considerable national burden when you take into consideration a nation trying to keep fit.
Touted as a cure for obesity, heart disease, and a myriad other conditions, we are told to exercise more. All it does is burn energy, necessitating the consumption of more of the wrong foods. While exercise may increase fitness, it seems to have little benefit for health. Up to 20% of hospital patients are "exercise" casualties. As one Dr. said, "The number of heart attacks occurring among joggers should dampen the enthusiasm for this type of unsupervised sport among laymen." Athletes are not noted for their longevity. If you watch animals in the wild you will see that on the whole, they take as little excercise as possible.
The Lion, for example spends most of his day lying down or sleeping, yet he does not get fat or diabetic. It is his wife the lioness that usually does the shopping. But she hunts only once every two or three… days, and even then expends as little energy as possible doing it. Similiarly grazing animals have a slow and steady lifestyle, moving quickly only when threatened by a predator.
The same is true of the many tribes that have inhabited the earth, they hunted, and walked for many miles if necessary, but not for fun. In the wild, nature protects the heart from stress. Even in the good book it says "A calm heart is the life of the fleshly organ." The exercise business is worth billions of dollars. To sum up, moderate excercise has its place, but punishing exercise regimes can be life threatening. Therefore when exercising, exercise care.
Interestingly , the highest BP I have ever recorded was immediately after a skiing holiday in freezing January at a very high resort Val d’Isere in France.
I do wonder whether exercise at altitude and sub zero temps should be avoided by hypertensives?!
I have noticed that it is not uncommon for people to actually drop dead during a long relay race. Long term challenges can actually reduce lung function and cause physical shrinkage of the lungs themselves.
Dr. Al Sears says we benefit much more from shorter term, more intense exercise. That way the lungs and heart are exercised in ways that increase capacity to respond in favorable ways. Check this out for yourself since most physicians don’t recognize this.
As a side note, people taking statin drugs should be aware those drugs actually reduce the ability of the body to respond to exercise. It is common for heart rates not to respond in an appropriate way as an effect of taking statins. This is in addition to the many, many other side effects of statins.
Wish I could remember the name of the famous writer of health recipes and foods and information, who died on a fast walk, but during the middle of freezing weather. Maybe Dr Atkins? It puts some excess strain on the heart when the weather is freezing, so i think normal walking and freezing weather may be OK, but fast or fast exertion at freezing temperatures may not be safe with some peoples hearts. The doctor died from a heart attack.
I cannot exert myself in hot weather, or I have stroke like symptoms which have been difficult to stop when I cannot get cool, cannot lower my dangerously high heart beat rate, so I would also be cautious if in freezing weather too. I have a bad reaction to cold weather, also, but different symptoms from the stroke like symptoms in hot weather. I have those even if I am not exerting myself, but am outside where I cannot get cool. I have to go back inside at those times, quickly, too.
In football training, even for the very young children, the coaching is loud and rude, and encourges the youngsters to work up their anger in order to participate in the rougher part of the football training. Can anyone honestly say this is good for a child or an adult? I practiced psych counseling for years, and I would say it is not healthy for the body or the mind of any person, to use being enraged to be better in a sport. Maybe that is why so many well known football players get into such terrible jams in their personal lives, when they get angry! Anger is a natural emotion, and we will all have it at some time. It is not natural to keep it a long amount of time. It is an emotion to be be used when we really need the energy it generates, like if we are in an unsafe situation, but we need to know how to lower our anger when we do not want to have it bothering us. This is very possible to do. Each person has the power and the wherewithall to lower their anger. Other people do not cause our anger; they may trigger the anger we do carry within us, but then it is up to us what we are going to allow the anger to do to us. We do not have to allow anger to continue to harm us or anyone else. We CAN lower our own anger, or our own any emotion which becomes a problem. We own and normally have a full range of emotions, as we were made or created to have and to use to help us, and we can lower them when they begin to harm us or cause us to want to harm others.
I apologize for the grandstanding. There will be many people who say I am wrong. That is OK. They are not ready to deal with their thinking, believing, or their stronger emotions at this time, and that is OK too. I can handle this situation. My being does not thrive off being accepted by others, or expecting others to agree with anything I say.
It is a very great and empowering time though, when a person learns how to control their problematic emotions and the behaviors which are disturbing them that go with those problem emotions. When a person rids theirself of the emotion, by taking their power back, they feel so much better about how they think, feel and behave. I went through this myself, or I would not be able to believe this. I taught anger management to young people at risk for my work. Young people respond with acceptance when they learn they do have these powers and these controls on their own. With love and concern, georgia c.
Thank you for all the good work you are doing for humanity. I believe strongly that you organization is going places and the future has a lot in stock for you people.
I choose the type of exercise that I actually enjoy, and that is swimming. It both relaxes and energizes me and my blood pressure always is lower afterwards. The benefits are mental as well as physical!
I agree with Fran. I love swimming the most as well. It is great to both challenge your body and relax. I go to the pool every week and always feel great afterwards ( my bp drops as well !!) I fact I am on my way to the swimming pool right now 🙂