Body Building Tips When Nausea Strikes

Ask any body builder and everyone will say they will feel light headed, nauseous and even sometimes even puke when they train big muscle groups with exercises such as squats and dead lifts. Some great bodybuilders even take pride that they puke after an intensive bout of weightlifting as an indication that they have had a fantastic workout. But these symptoms are unpleasant to many and also disruptive as well as dangerous and it can injuries. Perhaps, you may also have experienced these symptoms as well.

What caused it? Well, there could be several causes.

First, it’s possible that before your gym workout, you may have drunk or eaten too much. So for your digestive process, the blood is then channeled to your digestive organs. But when you begin to exercise intensively especially on big muscle groups, a lot of blood is channeled away from your digestive organs to the muscles. Food is now in your digestive systems left unattended when that happens and therefore undigested which is what could be causing you to feel nauseous.

Your blood sugar being low is also a possibility. When you are on a low carbohydrate caloric restriction diet or have not eaten for a while and is lifting heavy weights, then this is likely to happen. Giddiness is what you will likely feel as well as being tired or developing a headache and suffering muscular weakness. It simply boils down to a decreased of energy level for not having enough energy nutrients prior to your workout.

Low blood pressure is the most common cause of nausea when weight lifting. It could be caused by change of body position or it could also be inherent that you have low blood pressure. Have you ever felt giddy when you are sitting stationary for sometime then suddenly gotten up and stretch? Well, if you have had that experience, then the same logic and science applies. There could be a sudden fall of blood pressure when you are in a squatting position and then suddenly, you burst upwards to a standing position with the blood pooled in your lower body and it’s not sending the blood fast enough to your brain and your upper body.

These are some of the reasons why many of us will experience giddiness, nausea and even puke when we do exercises like squats and dead lifts with heavy weights and when working on big muscle groups.

We will be able to avoid these unpleasant symptoms because we now know the reasons which means we can take the necessary precautions during our gym workout on heavy weight days.

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