Bulging temple arteries

[Gammmmo]

[Dangerscouse]

Hahaha. Teenwolf!!!!

I think my arteries bulge after a long session but I don't pay much attention to them as I can't do anything about it and I'm not cutting out any erg metres.

I assume it's just a temporary issue?

[left coaster]

Exactly! That's why I get so bloody hot on the erg -- fully winterized all year round!

[Anth_F]

Little bit of an explanation of the why it happens.

When exercise begins, the heart's rate and strength of contraction increases and blood is quickly pumped into the arteries. As this is occurring, systolic blood pressure increases linearly with exercise intensity, rising to nearly 200 mmHg during high intensity aerobic exercise (and to more than 400 mmHg during weight lifting). Diastolic pressure, on the other hand, changes very little with aerobic exercise (although it rises during weight lifting). Simultaneously, the internal diameters of veins and venules narrow in a process called venoconstriction, forcing the flow of blood forward to the heart and enhancing their ability to receive blood coming from the capillaries. Overall, this process helps decrease the pressure in the venules and veins to at most about five mmHg.

Venous volume and pressure thereby decrease and are thus not the basis for the bulging. Instead, the process occurring in the capillaries as a result of the rise in arterial blood pressure during exercise causes plasma fluid otherwise resting in these tiny tributaries to be forced out through the thin vessel walls and into compartments surrounding the muscles. This process, known as filtration, causes a swelling and hardening of the muscle that is noticed during exercise. As a result of this swelling, cutaneous veins are pushed toward the skin surface, flatten to some extent, and appear to bulge. Such veins are more visible in persons with less subcutaneous fat. This bulging is neither good nor bad but simply a result of normal physiological mechanisms that result from the rise in arterial blood pressure during exertion.

I wear a reverse cap a lot or a beanie to cover them! I know i know... i should be proud of them and show em off

[PeteGas]

I hate to bump a dead topic here... but I'm kind of in the same boat here. Bald dude, now with ropes up the side of my head! Can't be covered with hair. I was really going at it hard recently in the gym, quit altogether 10 days ago. But these hideous things are still there!

Anth, how long can they take to go away?!

[Gammmmo]

anyone remember this? probably UK only? perhaps just me then

[Dangerscouse]

Haha, I don't remember Stressed Eric or heard of it.

I get the bulging veins too but I just can't be bothered by them. I notice loads of sportsmen with them since this thread started. I view it as a badge of honour if I notice them at all

[Gammmmo]

@Stu - too young to remember, see
Couldn't give a monkeys either...

[JerekKruger]

@Stu - too young to remember, see

Can't be that. I remember Stressed Eric! Must be that Stu's just a poorly read philistine

[Anth_F]

I hate to bump a dead topic here... but I'm kind of in the same boat here. Bald dude, now with ropes up the side of my head! Can't be covered with hair. I was really going at it hard recently in the gym, quit altogether 10 days ago. But these hideous things are still there!

Anth, how long can they take to go away?!

Well, when i was out of action from rowing on the erg for 5 weeks due to back injury i noticed they had disappeared. But i was not engaging in any form of exercise that demanded some intensity during that period. So as long as you're doing exercise with some intensity they will not go away. Typically, mine have returned since i started to erg again.

[Dangerscouse]

@Stu - too young to remember, see

Can't be that. I remember Stressed Eric! Must be that Stu's just a poorly read philistine

Hahaha, I can't read at all