I’m looking for good advice on managing nausea during leg workouts. I’m currently on my second week of Coach DeFranco’s WSB program. The program is just what I needed, however, when I hit single-leg squats on leg day, the challenge becomes not the movement so much as fighting the urge to puke. After the workout, I have to sit for 45 minutes or so before my stomach settles and I can sip my Surge and get on with the day. So, this is cutting into my schedule a bit, as well as compromising PWO nutrition.
My rest periods are around 2 minutes between sets, and I have avoided eating for 2 hours before coming to the gym. It’s only the single leg squats that are really getting to me. It may be relevant that I’m performing them with reps at the upper-end of the suggested range (15 reps), whereas I have usually been squatting in the 3-5 rep range. A little research suggests that a major culprit in nausea is lowered blood pH from lactic acid buildup. Various people seem to propose the use of baking soda or other buffering agents prior to training to mitigate the change in blood pH, but opinions seem to be mixed.
I’m sure some of you must have had success dealing with this issue … any advice or good references?
T-Nation on nausea:
http://t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=196192
Preventing nausea during intense exercise:
http://www.knapsack.net/articles/
P.S. I’ve also seen John Berardi’s recent article on chronic metabolic acidosis, so I know I should eat my spinach. Is diet also beneficial in managing more acute exercise-induced acidosis?
http://t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=460222