Is this something that occurs amongst endurance athletes or should I be concerned?

How high? And while at rest or during exercise?

Also can be caused by medication, high salt intake in your diet, alcohol, anemia…Better safe than sorry, see a doctor

Its not happening because you are an endurance athlete.

It might be. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1751-7176.2009.00100.x Isolated Systolic HTN Many conditioned athletes (particularly young men) have “athlete’s heart”: very high resting stroke volume and cardiac output with low PVR and heart rate. 17 Pulse pressure and SBP are hig…

I freak doctors out with this all the time. Luckily one figured out it was the blood pressure cuff size that was the problem. If they use a normal size cuff on me, the systolic will be high, but use the “large” and everything is fine. I have excess skin from big weight loss that cases this proble…

130 or above is now considered stage 1 hypertension.

Probably not accurate at all but I down loaded a phone app when I was bored one day which usually puts me at about 133/66 (its actually 129/67 now). High normal one way, ideal the other. I’ve had a few other issues over the last few year so have regularly had my blood pressure taken by the NHS and …

I think it was a combination of undercuffing and drinking too much. I reduced alcohol consumption and have already lost a few pounds. Hehehe. Just need this kick in the pants…

I have this exact thing, I’ve always had a high ish systolic B, I used to be a 20 hour a week training person that raced when I was around 20 and had a high systolic then. Now at my mid 40’s :cry::cry: I’m training a fair amount (much less) and have a resting HR of around 44 and BP of 127 ish over 7…

High systolic but normal diastolic blood pressure while fit and having low resting HR

Training

CaptainThunderpants November 25, 2020, 5:54am 3

If it’s at rest, and above 140, then yes. And see a doctor.

Isolated systolic hypertension. Usually caused by stiff/hardened vessels. And not good.

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High systolic but normal diastolic blood pressure while fit and having low resting HR

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