Originally Posted by
tbennett
Thread is relevant to my interests.
48 y/o, 6'0 and 208, started training NLP for probably the 4th time in January (stopped the other three times after various injuries outside of training, new babies, etc.). BP was 135/80, occasionally going up to 140/80 when I had too much coffee.
NLP has gotten me to squat 305, bench 210, dead 345, press 145, and 3 sets of 5 chins with 45 pounds added. I was ~200 when I started, so up ~8 pounds in 4 months.
And yet my BP this weekend while sitting around was 160/95. Yesterday it was 150/90 when I went to my doc, he stuck me on losartan.
This is worrisome since I lift 3x a week, eat pretty clean, don't smoke, waist is 34 inches, not particularly stressed, etc. I've never had good cardio, ever, so I wonder how much of a contribution that is (I could probably count the number of times I ran more than a mile in my life on one hand).
Curious to keep reading folks' experiences here...