{"id":950101,"date":"2026-05-10T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:55:22","slug":"pushing-too-hard-weightlifting-hiit-and-other-exercises-that-can-be-tough-on-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950101\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing too hard? Weightlifting, HIIT and other exercises that can be tough on high blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIIT may not be appropriate for individuals experiencing hypertension  for many reasons including, if you&#8217;re a newcomer to fitness, you have high-uncontrolled BP, have just lost a loved one, etc, the doctor warns and explains the body needs time to recover from these intense oxygen deficits caused by brief out of breath intervals. \u201cHIIT exercise programs that entail out-of-breath intervals create rapid increases and decreases in BP, ultimately stressing or straining the cardiovascular system. The more strenuous cardio sessions ,intense long-distance running, extreme endurance workouts like cross fit,  sprinting, etc. should therefore be implemented carefully,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIIT may not be appropriate for individuals experiencing hypertension for many reasons including, if you&#8217;re a newcomer to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1707,1630,105,11547,2750,22080,265246,265245,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-950101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-cardiovascular-disease","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-heart-attack","12":"tag-high-blood-pressure","13":"tag-hypertension","14":"tag-hypertension-and-exercises","15":"tag-hypertension-and-workout","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116549447112578894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}