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meghanrochelover911
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Had my grandma put her oscillometric blood pressure measuring device on me earlier today for the first time, since I got curious and wanted to see where I was standing in terms of tension. This is basically the kind of device she has, nearly identical:
It took a little while to correctly wrap the cuff around my left bicep, since I kept tightening it too much. This, coupled with the fact that I had just eaten sugar right before, might have had a negative effect in inflating my actual regular values. It felt really interesting how the air pump quickly inflated the cuff, sort of like an “exogenous” pump, as in transient hypertrophy. I did some quick breathwork before turning it on, and the results were 122/65mmHg, meaning the pressure in the arteries when the heart contracts (systole) over the pressure in the arteries when the heart is relaxed (diastole), with a heart rate of 80bpm, being the third measurement. I think it also featured some little EKG, but I didn’t pay attention to it.
So what does this mean? I haven’t been active with regular intense physical activity in about 15 months, when I stopped working out. My diet is filled with goyslop and inadequate fluid intake, I don’t really drink water, I don’t willingly fast, only when I forget to eat due to having zero appetite always. I constantly breathe in secondhand smoke from my parents’ cigarettes all day, and I don’t even strategically take advantage of IGF-1/GH spiking, all things I should put into practice knowing I’m a member of this forum. Not even my sleep is in check.
Postprandial state might have caused sympathetic activation, leading to a higher-than expected resting heart rate, since I was probably stimulated by the food I had eaten. I will replicate this tomorrow with better prep so as to not skew the values like I possibly did today. Any tips on how to get a cleaner reading? Should I track it for a few days in a row then average it out?
It took a little while to correctly wrap the cuff around my left bicep, since I kept tightening it too much. This, coupled with the fact that I had just eaten sugar right before, might have had a negative effect in inflating my actual regular values. It felt really interesting how the air pump quickly inflated the cuff, sort of like an “exogenous” pump, as in transient hypertrophy. I did some quick breathwork before turning it on, and the results were 122/65mmHg, meaning the pressure in the arteries when the heart contracts (systole) over the pressure in the arteries when the heart is relaxed (diastole), with a heart rate of 80bpm, being the third measurement. I think it also featured some little EKG, but I didn’t pay attention to it.
So what does this mean? I haven’t been active with regular intense physical activity in about 15 months, when I stopped working out. My diet is filled with goyslop and inadequate fluid intake, I don’t really drink water, I don’t willingly fast, only when I forget to eat due to having zero appetite always. I constantly breathe in secondhand smoke from my parents’ cigarettes all day, and I don’t even strategically take advantage of IGF-1/GH spiking, all things I should put into practice knowing I’m a member of this forum. Not even my sleep is in check.
Postprandial state might have caused sympathetic activation, leading to a higher-than expected resting heart rate, since I was probably stimulated by the food I had eaten. I will replicate this tomorrow with better prep so as to not skew the values like I possibly did today. Any tips on how to get a cleaner reading? Should I track it for a few days in a row then average it out?
