sweetcar1968 said:
so i found out today I have extremly high blood pressure and my doctor wants to put me on hyper tension medacine! Well we talked and she said for me to spend the next month loosing weight and we will check it again and go from there! So here is my problem I have dont nothing but gain weight since I started lifting agian, im loosing fat and leaning up but im gaining like 1-2lbs a week. Any advice on how to really nip that body fat. . . like maybe a very strict diet i can follow? I already drink nothing but water and once a day I drink a muscle milk light.
Since you're gaining 1-2lbs per week, I have to ask if you're on any AAS. I know it's not impossible to do without AAS, but for me that would be extremely hard for me to do while keeping lean and lifting naturally. If you are on aromatizing gear, you can take an aromatase inhibitor (letro, arimidex, etc.) to reduce estrogen and drop the water weight. That will quickly lower you blood pressure somewhat, but watch your lipids. Some non-aromatizing steroids such as turinabol and tren can raise your blood pressure (sometimes drastically) without causing water retention. If you're on those, your only choice for those would be to reduce the dosage get off of them.
If you are lifting naturally and packing on 1-2lbs per week of lean weight, I would guess that you have been out of the gym for a long time or are really, really busting your ass and eating right. For losing fat while retaining muscle, I thing teedubgee and I would both recommend HIIT. However, if you've been training for a while and are lifting intensely enough to produce the results you're getting naturally, I'm not sure that HIIT would provide much more benefit. It would help, but you're probably already getting most of the benefits just from lifting. Cardio will help control your blood pressure, but the effects won't be immediate.
If you're not on any gear and your bp is still very high, I would suggest taking the medicine that your doctor prescribed. Also, make sure that you and your doctor are taking your bp manually using a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope. The automated machines are notoriously inaccurate and have scared a lot of us, myself included. I've had automatic readings result in systolic readings of over 170, but have always been less than 140 on manual readings (although 135 is still a bit high, I know). Have a friend or nurse you trust take your bp to rule out whitecoat hypertension. Finally, if you do have to take medication, look at your options and the different classes of drugs and try to find something with a side effect profile you can live with. If you need medication, I'd like to see you find something that you can stick with for as long as you need it.
