As part of my keto journey I purchased a good Omron BP cuff that shares the data via blue tooth with my phone. My BP was high and I wanted to monitor progress with keto and exercise. I like things that require very little effort for long term tracking.
Anyhow, My BP a few minutes after rising in the morning is higher than about ten minutes later. 15-20 minutes after a threshold cardio spin (fairly intense) My systolic blood pressure is 20-30 points lower and my diastolic is ~5-10 points lower. I haven’t done extensive testing to better understand this. weight I get… First thing in the morning and it’s consistent. However, there’s a fair bit of noise in BP readings, some of which seems correlated to prior CV status, resting, spinning etc…
Is there any studies about this? I’ve googled and haven’t seen much. Secondly, I wonder if there’s anything wrt CV health in BP numbers after cardio. My BP numbers post spin have dropped more than my baseline. I’m wondering if between cardio and keto my CV system is getting more plastic thus expanding under the cardio load thus post spin requires less BP because the “pipes” are more open.