Factos affecting blood pressure:
- Age: as people age their blood vessels have less elasticity and therefore more pressure on them.
- Health: cholesterol, diet, stress, drugs, hereditary.
- Fitness level: the higher your level of fitness the lower your blood pressure.
Exercise factors:
- Cardiac output: increases, higher volume of blood travelling through the vessels.
- Heart rate: increases, blood circulation travelling more quickly around the body.
- Blood viscocity: sweat, less water in our blood, makes blood thicker.
- Blood vessel size: increase and decrease, larger area of a blood vessel the lower the pressure.