been working out for 2 years now, nothing extremly heavy but decent for me. anyways fo some reason recently i keep throwing up during workouts and cant figure it out. been going a bit heavier but nothing that shoulda warrant this. Im a really healthy individual and after a throw up i feel better just leading up too it during my workout it makes me feel sick.
SO what could it be>
not breathing right (sometimes i have to remind myself to breathe as i have a tendencey to hold breathe on heavy lifts such as deadlift) and lifting heaver
personally i always get 1.5 litres of water with me to the gym, and sometimes i think thats what makes me feel like vomitting. but i never vomit, i just feel like it sometimes, specially during abs
From personal experiences, I’ve felt nauseous or sick at the gym from either: lack of sleep, bad nutrition, not eating enough before a workout (lack of carbs or energy), or eating too much before a workout…never felt like vomiting from just going heavier, unless increasing the volume/decreasing the rest periods to get heart rate going way up.
Have you changed anything else in your life recently that might be related? Your description is pretty vague…
Now I have some clue to why I felt like I was going to die when doing squats last week. I was going really fast and intense, berserker mode like I usually do. After, when I was taking a break I felt deathly ill, like I was going to die. It was really hot and my heart wouldn’t stop. I had to leave the weights and crawl my ass home.
Could have been my sleep or nutrition, something I need to improve on.
[quote]Jin wrote:
From personal experiences, I’ve felt nauseous or sick at the gym from either: lack of sleep, bad nutrition, not eating enough before a workout (lack of carbs or energy), or eating too much before a workout…never felt like vomiting from just going heavier, unless increasing the volume/decreasing the rest periods to get heart rate going way up.
Have you changed anything else in your life recently that might be related? Your description is pretty vague…[/quote]
Well I just got back to university…However i dont party like crazy,dont drink, i eat really healthy (have my own place) grocery bills 250 for me alone a week… the only other thing it could be i guess is lack of sleep> i sometimes go to bed at 3 and 4 and wake up at 11.Well i guess that isnt lack of sleep but its not proper sleep…
I think nausea during and after a workout has a lot to do with intensity and rest times between sets. Last night I was sure I was going to vomit.
I was pretty strapped for time because I had to be at my school for a grad meeting at 7 and it was nearly six… so I had an hour to work out, shower and drive to school. I ended up doing 5 sets of front squats, five sets seated calf raises and five sets cable crunches finished with a 45 second plank. I did supersets for nearly the whole workout, two exercises one after the other then 60 seconds rest, rinse, repeat.
I was using slightly less weight on the front squats than I normally do but I was doing ATG speed reps and I think thats what killed me. I felt so bad I could hardly drive and I ended up sleeping through my grad meeting. heh.
I once knew a kid, during wrestling practice, who would always throw up, every practice. Friends of his said it was because he ate poorly, very poorly. I guess that’s not true in your case but I’ve always considered throwing up the bodies way of getting rid of harmful things in it.
You could just have a weak stomach. If you eat a lot pre-workout, try to not eat solid foods an hour or so before the workout.
I would also try taking rests between your sets, I obviously don’t recommend making resting part of your workout because you won’t actually get worked out. Just fool around with your body and try to see what’s causing it
Thanks guys, no its definatley not diet i eat as clean as anything
I think ive concluded im going to hard cause im doing supersets
3 exercises… then 90 seconds then repeat x 4
then two more super sets of different exercises
I just started doing this was okay for the first 2.5 weeks but i guess its putting to much shock on my body…thought i could handle it but i guess my cardios not up to par
If I work out on too much caffiene I get nauseaus. Too little sleep does it too. So do heavy squats. I also get nauseaus if I eat an hour before my workout. try 2 hours or smaller meals maybe.
It could be that your blood sugar is getting extremely low. I know that’s made me feel nauteous in the past (although I’ve never puked during or after a workout, felt like I was going to before though).
Or, honestly, you could just be a puker. Strange as it may sound, some people puke when the intensity really gets turned up. Others never do, even at the same level of intensity (even if they feel like they might).
[quote]kiwinomad wrote:
I think it’s the eating an hour before the workout.
When you’re working hard, your body doesn’t want to be bothered wasting resources on digestion. [/quote]
Yeah that could definitely be true.
When you workout your sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system gets activated and this in turn causes the vast majority of your blood (I believe somewhere around 80%) to go into your muscles. This means that very little if any blood is in the digestive tract, thus leading to ineffective digestion/absorption.
In contrast, during feeding, times of inactivity or sleep, your parasympathetic nervous system is activated (rest and digest), which causes the majority of your blood to be in your organs (digestive tract included). This leads to much more effective digestion and absorption.
Eat less immediately before working out
Work out when you feel best during the day
WARM UP THOROUGHLY…If you hit heavy hard sets with little rest and no warmup you will not feel good.
Drink plenty of H2O
Get enough sleep
Figure out how to spend less than $250 per week on groceries. I would be sick too if I spent that much.
By the way, I suspect you’re buying a lot of pre-packaged crap if you’re paying $250.
If you cook your own stuff then it is freaking ridiculous to be spending that much. If you eat at a lot of nice restaurants, buy pre-packaged healthy meals, small servings of healthy food from grocery stores…I can see it.
Anyway… if that’s $250 USD, that’s cool if you wanna do it, but you’d be better off setting a limit and spending the rest of that copious cash on supplements. Take the max dose of BETA-7, REZ-V, Alpha Male, and whatever else. Buy super-high-quality protein (Metabolic Drive Complete) and stuff like that.
[quote]conwict wrote:
Here is a list of troubleshooting ideas:
Eat less immediately before working out
Work out when you feel best during the day
WARM UP THOROUGHLY…If you hit heavy hard sets with little rest and no warmup you will not feel good.
Drink plenty of H2O
Get enough sleep
Figure out how to spend less than $250 per week on groceries. I would be sick too if I spent that much.[/quote]
Good list.
Another thing to consider would be peri (during) workout nutrition. Sipping on a Gatorade, or Spike, or any sports drink for that matter, helps to maintain blood glucose levels and generally allows people to maintain a higher level of intensity and also helps to prolong fatigue.
[quote]conwict wrote:
By the way, I suspect you’re buying a lot of pre-packaged crap if you’re paying $250.
If you cook your own stuff then it is freaking ridiculous to be spending that much. If you eat at a lot of nice restaurants, buy pre-packaged healthy meals, small servings of healthy food from grocery stores…I can see it.
Anyway… if that’s $250 USD, that’s cool if you wanna do it, but you’d be better off setting a limit and spending the rest of that copious cash on supplements. Take the max dose of BETA-7, REZ-V, Alpha Male, and whatever else. Buy super-high-quality protein (Metabolic Drive Complete) and stuff like that.
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Hell if I had an extra 150-175 dollars a week I’d be buying a car or renting out an extra apartment.
Another thing to consider would be peri (during) workout nutrition. Sipping on a Gatorade, or Spike, or any sports drink for that matter, helps to maintain blood glucose levels and generally allows people to maintain a higher level of intensity and also helps to prolong fatigue.[/quote]
I’ve always had problems with nausea while lifting heavy, especially with lower body lifts (squats mainly), and anything where I’m bent over, even back raises. My buddy go me taking Surge and it has greatly reduced the number of times I’ve felt sick in the gym.