Causes Of Nausea During Muscle Group Exercises

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. If they puke after an intensive bout of weightlifting, some great bodybuilders would even take pride in this because to them, it's an indication that they have had a fantastic workout. But to many, these symptoms are unpleasant, disruptive and could be even be dangerous and cause injuries. It is possible that you have also experienced these symptoms.

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

Before your gym workout, it's likely that you may also have eaten or drunk too much. So you blood is channeled to your digestive organs for your digestive process. But a lot of blood is channeled away from your digestive organs to the muscle when you begin to exercise intensively especially on big muscle groups. When that happens, food is now in your digestive system left unattended and therefore undigested and thus causing you to feel nauseous.

Your blood sugar level may be low. 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. Besides feeling giddy and tired, you may also suffer muscular weakness and may even develop a headache. A decrease of energy level for not having enough energy nutrients prior to your workout is what this will all boil down to.

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. You may have felt giddy when you are sitting stationary for someone then suddenly, you got up and stretched. Well, the same logic and science will apply if you have had that experience. The sudden fall of blood pressure happens when you are in a squatting position and then suddenly bursting upwards to a standing position with the blood pooled in your lower body and not sending the blood fast enough to your upper body and your brain.

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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