Gender Differences in Blood Pressure and Training

And to break out of that, sometimes we have to do the things that we don't like to do, especially for men. And to tell a guy he needs to do a little bit more aerobic conditioning and journal and meditate, maybe see a counselor, he's going to be like, nah, fuck off. I'm just going to go lift more weights and run hill intervals and shit like that. And that will work for a period of time, but it doesn't always work. It's not always a long-lasting solution. And it's the same thing on the side of the women. whenever you whenever a woman comes in they're typically and I'm being I'm saying all this in a very generalized manner most guys that come in are going to be hyper tense and most girls are going to be high potence and a lot of it has to do with what they've done before they've come to see you whenever most men want to change the way their physique looks what modality do they usually choose piling food in and lifting weights that's it right exactly right so here's the thing I'm piling food hypertrophy work and overeating is inherently insulin resistance promoting and it's inherently in plant inflammatory promoting and that's not a bad thing if it's balanced out but most guys will go on a nine month bulk to try to put weight on and they don't realize it's maybe it's winter time and you're wearing a lot of heavy clothing and you're not really looking at yourself naked and you look really good in close and then you get your spring hits and you're going to start your summer shred and you kind of take a an assessment of yourself in the in the mirror and you go oh my god i took that bulk a little too far so then what do they end up doing they then they super diet and they go the extreme the opposite direction so most of the guys that that we see they probably need to do more conditioning initially and a little bit less weight training not no weight training but a little bit less emphasis on that and a little bit more emphasis on the conditioning side Most women probably need to do a little less conditioning and a little bit more actual weight training Because you get a girl that comes in and, again, for anybody listening to this, I know I'm being very, I'm not trying to be misogynistic. I'm just speaking from experience. Most girls will come in and you'll say, okay, look, you're borderline very hypotense. you tell me whenever you stand up you're getting postural hypotension you're you're seeing spots and you're getting really uh you're starting to feel faint you have cold hands and feet what we're going to work on is we're probably going to work on a lot of strength training initially and not as much conditioning and then it's almost always they go oh i do strength training and you go oh cool what do you do they go oh i do body pump you're like no no no no that's no no no that's not what i mean is like uncomfortable lifting where you actually strain and you feel like you're going to poop out your spleen. Like that's, that's what I'm talking about. Because that's what's going to raise your blood pressure back up. And for the guy, and for the guys, it's like, Hey, man, your blood pressure is really high. You got stage two hypertension. I need to get that down. You're not going to be able to lift that away. We're probably going to have to do some just standard aerobic interval training or Tabatas or whatever you steady state cardio lifts, whatever. You might need to do that for a little bit of time. And then the guy looks at you goes on I'm gonna lose all my gains like well you know if you have a heart attack you're gonna lose your gains anyways if you get diabetic you lose them anyways so you might as well spend a good six to eight weeks getting into shape and then we can reassess and start working on your strength and hypertrophy at that point so yeah super interesting that's exactly it that is what that is a lot of the time what you see isn't it is yeah it's one needing to go one way and and then maybe needing to be pulled back a little bit.