[antics9]

I have a neighbour who's in his 60s. Blood pressure was of the charts while in his 40s. The guy was cycling to work everyday (and thought that was enough exercise) and was living a stressful family and work life.

Doctor never prescribed any drugs but told him that he had to start exercising. Signed up for judo class. He couldn't believe the amount of exercise he got from the warm up alone. Been doing judo 3 days a week for 20 years now. Haven't had any heart or blood pressure issues since.

[randunel]

And here I was, thinking my daily cycling would be enough. It's not. I've been cycling all of my life, cycling daily and I'm still categorised as obese according to all weight to height ratios.

My long term avg blood pressure varies with weight. It's lower when I lose weight, higher when I gain weight.

I guess generalising health advice isn't necessarily useful. Health advice should be tailored to individuals, instead.

[da-x]

There's no way around getting having the nutrition part figured out too, meaning you need to stop eating like crazy. Saying this from a personal account, where I went down from 20% body fat to 13% in just 3 months and saw various health metrics improving.

[godshatter]

My take on exercise is that our bodies are really good at efficiency. Cycle daily for the same general distance and effort and eventually you are completely attuned to doing that, meaning what used to take a lot of effort now simply doesn't. Maybe increasing intensity or distance or just starting something new along with it would help.

[havblue]

It sounds like diet might have worked in this case.