Lately when I do squats I get real sick and dizzy? What could be the cause of this?
are you holding your breath?
Same thing happens to me. It’s a feeling quite the opposite of holding my breath. More along the lines of light headedness of taking repeated deep breathes at the doctor’s office.
Burpees do the same thing but worse to me.
i dont think squats are invigorating for anybody.
remember to warm up. when i dont warm up before chin ups i am liable to pass out
how long have you been doing them?
and how heavy?
I notice bar position is important for me, I like the bar to be high on my shoulders and at times when its too high (obviously pinching my neck or some such similar important body part) I get sick and and real dizzy… The dizziness is delayed though, I can walk away to another excercise and suddenly someone is turning the light dimmers down!!!
If its during squat I would go with looking at your breathing.
That has happened to me on very hot days and also if I am not breathing when I am using a heavier load.
I laid my back over a physioball until I caught my breath, let the blood get back to my head and then I felt fine
make sure you are hydrating and not just with water. You don’t want to deplete your salts
Squats will make you dizzy and lightheaded if you do them with much effort. It’s from the oxygen debt brought on from using so many muscles and a weight being on your shoulders, which makes it harder to breathe in deeply. Try taking a few more breaths between reps and see if it helps.
I breath between reps, it helps. Otherwise I end up with an headache.
Basically try breathing in on the eccentric then breath out on the concentric (obviously), but at the top, take another breath and release it before going again.
I find that it lets me get more quality reps anyway.
[quote]transformation wrote:
Lately when I do squats I get real sick and dizzy? What could be the cause of this?[/quote]
You’re doing it… right.
Yea when I do squats I get lightheaded and i’ve thrown up a couple times. I chalk it up to bad breathing and being out of shape. Throwing up makes it all go away =]. A tad embarassing but whatever it takes.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
transformation wrote:
Lately when I do squats I get real sick and dizzy? What could be the cause of this?
You’re doing it… right.[/quote]
I don’t necessarily feel quite normal right after squats but I don’t feel sick and dizzy.
With all your workouts, but especially squats, make sure you are well-hydrated and have eaten before you hit the gym.
It might be just blood rush, like when you get up to fast out of a chair, you feel light headed. (Thats the only thing I can think of)
Breath properly, stay hydrated, take longer rest if you need to, or simply whipe the sand from your vagina and suck it up…
i used to have the same issues. i found that, contrary to chitown’s advice, leaving a couple of hours between a meal and my leg workout has helped. if i squat on a full stomach it makes me not feel well.
also, you might try to avoid doing any excercise that puts your body in a parallel position to the floor (ie lying hamstring curls) directly after squats as i found this also makes me feel like i could pass out (i assume from the blood rush to my head)
[quote]eremesu wrote:
i dont think squats are invigorating for anybody.
remember to warm up. when i dont warm up before chin ups i am liable to pass out[/quote]
Cool points
am no doctor or anything, but i would say this is a normal reaction, if you just did a few heavy squats, your body certainly isnt going to react to a few heavy squats, like its on a sugar rush or something.
But how sever is your problem, do you get everytime you do a set? squat? i sometimes feel sick, dizzy but this mostly down to training hard in general, not down to one particlular exercise.
I have experienced lightheadedness due to excessive deep breaths, and also by not breathing. There’s a medium that will cause you to be perfectly fine, even under heavier weights. I have no issues these days with squats.
My only thing that I notice is that with heavier weight sometimes my eyes get bloodshot. But I don’t have any problem with that since it goes away.
In addition to what the guys here have already noted, there is one other thing that can cause the light headedness and that�??s low blood sugar. The big compound movements are very taxing on blood sugar supplies.
The same thing used to happen to me until I got my pre-workout meal right. About 45 minutes to an hour before training (especially on the heavy compound movement days) I�??ll eat a couple of jelly white bread sandwiches (I�??ll also take about 15 grams of whey). In addition I�??ll sip on something sugary (Gatorade generally) just before and during lifting.
I�??ve notice a tendency for people on this site to stress post workout nutrition (Surge), when to me pre-workout is at least as important as it effects both recovery from and performance during the workout. You may have to experiment a little on timing and quantity, because you can end up making yourself throw up if you aren�??t careful.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I�??ve notice a tendency for people on this site to stress post workout nutrition (Surge), when to me pre-workout is at least as important as it effects both recovery from and performance during the workout. [/quote]
So true about the pre-workout nutrition! Biotest knows it too and that’s why they’re working on Surge Workout Fuel. Funny but true story on how It’s importance, or should I say impact, was proven to me. I was naughty and ate waaaaay too much Rolo Ice Cream. I should point out that I normally eat low carb as in just green veggies except for a cheat day.
Anyways, I never do this after being naughty but this day I decided to jump on the eliptical immediately after eating it to burn it off. I did about 20 minutes of mixed intensity intervals. I was amazed! I barely broke a sweat, I was able to do it with 20 percent more intensity and afterwards I was FULL of energy and couldn’t sit still.
EDIT: Should have mentioned I found the Rolo Ice Cream not nearly as beneficial before weightlifting as it was pre intervals/cardio. Probably related to the high fat content?
I am in no way encouraging you to eat Rollo ice cream pre-workout. You need to find what works for you. ; ) I’m going to try Surge half before I start and half during the next time I train now that the Rolo is all gone : (