I am 50 years having mild hypertension and for which i am using a drug as suggested by my physician. I use to do brisk walk for 40 minutes and my weight is 62 kg. Is there is any need to increase my walking speed. Earlier i have increased speed and suffered with back pain. Kindly also suggest me good diet. ramachandran
dear sir. i m 40 years old,having 80 kg weight and 5'9" ht. My b p remains 140/100-105, qand i hv to take Tab.LOSAR-A at 9.30am.i m sensitive by nature.
Brinda may be a good fitness instructor. But she is ignorant of the medical side of his Hypertension. Rajesh has mild hypertension which means > 120/80 but less than 140/90 WITHOUT medication (BETA BLOCKERS). IF HE USES ANY HEAVY WEIGHTS OR GYM EQUIPMENT His heart will be under stress and his Blood pressure will rise.ASK any other doctor if you don't trust me. A STRICT NO for GYM EXERCISES of power weights or resistance types
The best exercises for HYPERTENSIVE + Overweight patients are in ranking:
1st best: SWIMMING (for youngsters below 40 yrs) 2nd best : Brisk walking for 30 mins daily 3rd best : YOGA for reducing stress and enhancing flexibility.
Your best bet Rajesh is to reduce your oil + sodium/ potassium intakes drastically. Go for a Thyroid profile and take oral hormones if necessary (Consult your internist first.Every thing else what brindsa said is correct But dont use any gym equipment for heavens sake. Ur BP will sky rocket Take it from a person who has experienced that himself.
You have wrongly calculated the Target heart rate. How come you can make grave maistake like this.The target heart rate is (220-age)x70%. You needn't add again your Normal pulse rate on this.
RE:Target heart rate
by Tom Venuto on Oct 23, 2006 09:37 AM Permalink
Right another way (tehse are all estimates) is to use target1=restHR+0.70x(maxHR-restHR) OR target2=0.70xmaxHR obviously both will be different, target 1 will be higher by about 20bpm. How could she be so irresponsible to post NOT only a wrong formula BUT use it to get a meaningless answer (which shdve led her to question the formula in the first place)
RE:Target heart rate
by unnikrishnan on Oct 26, 2006 11:01 AM Permalink
whatever may be the method of calculation for heart rate, I know one thing, Pranayam & Yoga can do miracles; no need of any counting or calculation please do pranayam especially kapalbhathi and anulom vilom in a normal speed for half an hour daily; you can overcome your heart problem, hyper tension, diabetes, aastha and what not. Why to go for treadmills and other sophisticated machines in the gym. Only recently, one heart patient collapsed on treadmill in a gym in Mumbai. Wife of an ex-chief minister of gujarat electrcuted while doing her routine exercises on machines in her gym. If you go for pranayam and yoga there is no chances of such fatal attacks any way. Experience is the real guru. It is my experience... God bless you all readers;;; Unnikrishnan
RE:Target heart rate
by Pasupathy on Oct 17, 2006 05:01 PM Permalink
That is right. THe resting heart rate should not be added back. 212 !! that guy will collapse....if i am right no machine in the gym even has a heart rate that goes above 200......
RE:Target heart rate
by sundar on Oct 22, 2006 10:09 PM Permalink
Acuthan is correct , In the fitness center if you enter your weight and age the instrument itself will calculate heart rate which will come around 140 - 150. Don\\\'t go with the calculation mentioned.
Also if you are with hypothyroidism you should take medicine like eltroxin or levo-thyroxine.(which i am taking now.)
I was also person like you once with 98 kg weight. Now I am 78 kg.I achieved this in one year.
My success formula : Daily excercise for 1 hour which includes tread mill,cycling and strectch excercise.
Go for fat free milk , take care of serving size , Go for cereals for breakfast. Don\\\'t take snacks in between.
