Does upper-body cycling lead to a temporary increase in blood pressure during exercise?
A. It’s possible that this might happen in the short term. Previous studies on the UBE show that some subjects have a greater increase in blood pressure during Kranking than during other forms of cardio, probably because the blood vessels in the upper body are smaller than the blood vessels in the legs. Through training, however, this difference begins to diminish. Kranking can still function as an important training modality for improving cardiovascular fitness in individuals who experience this at first, and it will be temporary.
