twenty years of controlled hypertension

[Happyrosie]

about 20 years ago I was found to have hypertension, at about 190/90 in late fifties. Diet, lifestyle and pills brought it down to 110/70 ish for many years, with pulse of 70.

Lockdown came, so my husband I and decided to add ten minutes of ‘Joe Wicks for seniors’ video each day along with our usual walking.

After about two years my bp was too low, so the dosage on one of my medications was reduced, then one of my tablets stopped altogether.

now the bp is around 115 to 120/80, pulse down to 62. The only changes in these four years is the loss of four kg weight and the extra ten minutes of video exercising. I continue with 10000 paces a day walking and a very sensible diet.

So the purpose of this post is, just ten minutes of additional high(ish) intensity exercise does being bp down.

[Madlegs1]

Thank you.

I used to do the Victoria Secrets 10 mins workout-- but lost it when changing phone.👻

They were very encouraging -- and most enjoyable to work with!😝

I must give Joe a look up!💪

Thank you.

[Happyrosie in reply to Madlegs1]

I also now do Lucy Wyndham-Reed

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I exercise cardio & weights 3 hrs a week and no I still have high bp I also exercised walked everywhere and still had a tia.Even diet and exercise does NOT work for everyone you know lucky you talk about making people feel even more worse that they are doing everything right but still have high bp was happy that my bp was 140/90 just now until I’ve read this 😢

[Happyrosie]

I’m sorry you have had a TIA. I should have said in my last paragraph “just an extra ten minutes of high intensity workout (along with a good diet and family history) can bring bp down.”.

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Maybe like I said LUCKY YOU I’d just be happy to get to old age like yourself eh 👌

[Brisk61]

so pleased it has all worked so well for you. 👏

[KBMosia]

HiI totally agree with you. A few years ago I was on medication for hypertension which caused bad side effects. So I changed my lifestyle - healthy eating and exercise, and now I am free of any meds. I hope your post will give some people an incentive to try a change of lifestyle as there's nothing to lose but a lot to gain