Gym & Food & Nausea

[Heretic_Cata]

Hi

I saw there are lots of ppl around here that go to the gym. (which is a bit surprising)

So i'll ask you a problem i have.
When i work out on several machines over at the gym i seem to get really nauseaus and want to puke.
The thing is my muscles don't hurt that much when i get nauseaus, so i want to put MORE weights. And the more i put, the more i want to go puke.

What might be causing this? Kuz it's really stresfull not being able to go past certain numbers of kg because of this.

I am guessing it might be the fact that i sometimes eat to close (1 hour difference) to the time i spend at the gym.
So how close to gym time do you eat ?
Is there any way to get rid of the nausea ? (no pills please, maybe smthing to put in the water i drink there...)

 

[Sidhe]

Well I'm not someone who goes to the gym, but I can tell you about physiology; if you eat your stomach becomes enlarged, this reduces lung capacity(by virtue of the stomachs proximity to the lungs) And makes excercise more difficult, to compensate for the reduced oxygen intake, the body makes you feel nauseus to try and get you to stop excercising untill your stomach is clear, or in extreme cases to try and rid itself of the reduction of lung capacity.

My advice is wait 2-3 hours after a good meal, depends on when you feel your stomach is empty. That way you should have no reduced lung capacity, but an excess of Carbs etc in your body, assuming your eating the right foods for body building.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

I don't eat for at least 2 hours before I exercise unless it a very small amount. The only exception is I take gels when running really long distance, but had to work up to that.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

@Sidhe - That does make sense. But today i only had a sandwich before going to the gym and it hurt like hell (but that didn't stop me... till a certain point).

BTW, I don't eat much in general. I hate eating, who the hell invented it.

 

[Sidhe]

Hmm interesting, but your gym nausea is puzzling in that case. Maybe you should seek advice from a nutritioist via your doctor? Perhaps your lack of eating, or at least eating the right amount is causing the symptoms? Not informed enough to give you advice.

BTW, I don't eat much in general. I hate eating, who the hell invented it.

I don't know who invented it, try the intelligent design thread

 

[El_Machinae]

Do you get nauseous AND get a lactic acid burn? Or do you get nauseous with no burn?

If you're not getting a burn, it's because of blood pressure changes (you're probably pushing too hard for too long - you need to ramp up to that level of activity). If you are getting a burn, it's because your body doesn't like the acidity.

 

[Alpine Trooper]

Too much acids. Lay off on potassium and fruits before going to the gym. Apple juice is a great example to avoid as well. Your body is not equipped to absorb so much. You will exert the better part of your strength within the first 10 minutes.

I havn't heard of anyone getting nausea from lactic acid building up. But my experience at the gym is to lay off fruits and sources of potassium before working out. Try bulking on proteins instead if this is the case and see if that helps. Proper hydration and cool-down is imperative as well.

 

[Aramazd]

BTW, I don't eat much in general. I hate eating, who the hell invented it.

I'm going to guess the first heterotroph, who I will also guess, was a unicellular prokaryote.

 

[The Yankee]

You might also be not getting enough water in your system. You didn't mention the water intake or how much you may sweat or anything to that effect.

 

[Sidhe]

Too much acids. Lay off on potassium and fruits before going to the gym. Apple juice is a great example to avoid as well. Your body is not equipped to absorb so much. You will exert the better part of your strength within the first 10 minutes.

I havn't heard of anyone getting nausea from lactic acid building up. But my experience at the gym is to lay off fruits and sources of potassium before working out. Try bulking on proteins instead if this is the case and see if that helps. Proper hydration and cool-down is imperative as well.

I've never heard of this at all and I have plenty of mates who went all out into weight lifting to the extent they had degrees in boreology from the university of dull and P.h.D's in how long can they talk about weight regimes before I shout at them to stop.

Which is why I suggest if it continues you go see a doctor.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I am guessing it might be the fact that i sometimes eat to close (1 hour difference) to the time i spend at the gym.
So how close to gym time do you eat ?
Is there any way to get rid of the nausea ? (no pills please, maybe smthing to put in the water i drink there...)

Same problem, excessive overexertion somethimes causes me to suffer from head spins + shortness of breath. I normally sit down and breath slowely. it happens rarely now.

I dont eat before going to martial arts classes. generaly drink as much liquids as I can before hand and drink water during.

I would recommend for nausea GINSING (very good for motion sickness, immunity and nausea)
Other harder to get fruit would be Qui or Gaesi gore both fruits with excellent medicinal properties.

Best way to absorb ginsing is either boil the root in water and tea.
Or ginsing cubes with suger. Please take moderate amounts as it will give you hot blood.

 

[Sidhe]

I'm sure everyones run, done weights or exerted themselves to the point they made themselves feel sick. If this is happening regularly though with what sound like small amounts of activity and it continues to happen, go see a doctor. If it clears up in a few weeks, maybe it is what FF suggests?

Also the fact that he's still able to continue excersising and put on more weights would not be indicative of over exertion? This has only ever happened to me once and I ran myself into exhaustion to try and beat someone in a race. I did but I threw up afterward. Do you feel you are over exerting yourself when you begin to feel sick?

I'd take a wild stab at your diet being the problem, but as I say I'm not a qualified nutritionist or medical practitioner so feel fee to ask one

For all I know it's a physiological condition that's causing the symptoms(minor heart defect, malaria) You name it I'm not sure whether I've said this but if it continues for more than a few weeks, go see a professional

 

[FriendlyFire]

Iam suggesting: dont eat, drink liquids before hand and drink liquids during especially for long sessions. Try ginsing root for nausea.

Hmmm how long do people goto gym for anyway per session ?
Is 2-3 hours normal ?

 

[Jawz II]

Hi

I saw there are lots of ppl around here that go to the gym. (which is a bit surprising)

So i'll ask you a problem i have.
When i work out on several machines over at the gym i seem to get really nauseaus and want to puke.
The thing is my muscles don't hurt that much when i get nauseaus, so i want to put MORE weights. And the more i put, the more i want to go puke.

What might be causing this? Kuz it's really stresfull not being able to go past certain numbers of kg because of this.



I am guessing it might be the fact that i sometimes eat to close (1 hour difference) to the time i spend at the gym.
So how close to gym time do you eat ?
Is there any way to get rid of the nausea ? (no pills please, maybe smthing to put in the water i drink there...)

dont eat before workout, eat something with protein in it as soon as youre done working out.

also dont do situps and crunches etc. the only real stomach training i do is in the "standing sit-up machine", i have no idea what its real name is. but thats what it dose. its like a situp but youre standing up, so gravity holds your food down.

 

[Steph]

I had a similar problem. When I did excercice, I felt completly exhausted to be point of nausea, if I did NOT eat before. But also if I eat to much.
The key for me was to eat something with quickly to assimile enery, ie sugar.

So if I ate something like a bar of chocolate (something with a lot of sugar), something like 1 hour to 30 minutes before excerice, it was ok.

 

[funxus]

I only get nauseous when exercising the lower back, I guess that and sit-ups are the ones putting most pressure on the stomach. And as everyone else said, don't eat too much before exercising, just make sure you eat soon afterwards.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Well, technicaly i eat an adequet amount of food in general - but i hate it.
@sidhe: I'll leave the doctor as a last resort, no money.

Do you get nauseous AND get a lactic acid burn? Or do you get nauseous with no burn?

Are you refering to muscle pains/burns ? (in romanian it is called muscular fever) The only time i got those was the first 2-3 sesions when i was a noob.

If you're not getting a burn, it's because of blood pressure changes (you're probably pushing too hard for too long - you need to ramp up to that level of activity). If you are getting a burn, it's because your body doesn't like the acidity.

I never stay longer than 1h + 30 mins. And i take pauses. I leave the harder exercises last.

Too much acids. Lay off on potassium and fruits before going to the gym. Apple juice is a great example to avoid as well. Your body is not equipped to absorb so much. You will exert the better part of your strength within the first 10 minutes.
I havn't heard of anyone getting nausea from lactic acid building up. But my experience at the gym is to lay off fruits and sources of potassium before working out. Try bulking on proteins instead if this is the case and see if that helps. Proper hydration and cool-down is imperative as well.

I don't eat any fruits before going to the gym. I usualy go to the gym about 2-3 hours after waking up in the morning. (i have courses later)

You might also be not getting enough water in your system. You didn't mention the water intake or how much you may sweat or anything to that effect.

I am sure it's not the water. I drink 0,5l of tea or water about 1hour before going to the gym. (i had kidney sand several years ago, so i have a habit of drinking many liquids)
It can't be to MUCH liquids ... kuz they pass through the stomach quickly.

I don't sweat much in general... not now at least. In the summer i do sweat more ... but still not as much as some guys at the gym.

Same problem, excessive overexertion somethimes causes me to suffer from head spins + shortness of breath. I normally sit down and breath slowely. it happens rarely now.

I do get head spins quite a lot - nothing that bothers to much though.
Shortness of breath - nope, kuz i don't do many stamina draining exercises.

I would recommend for nausea GINSING (very good for motion sickness, immunity and nausea)Other harder to get fruit would be Qui or Gaesi gore both fruits with excellent medicinal properties.
Best way to absorb ginsing is either boil the root in water and tea.Or ginsing cubes with suger. Please take moderate amounts as it will give you hot blood.

We call it "ginseng" around here ... but it's waaaay to expensive. (i never saw the actual plant around here, but there are lots of pills with it) Never heard of those other fruits(and i have been treated with lots of herbal remedies, so this doesn't happen often... but then again they are foreign, so probably not many ppl here heard about them).

dont eat before workout, eat something with protein in it as soon as youre done working out.

The nausea only lasts a few moments (maybe 15 minutes max). It passes quicly , but it lasts while using any machines (at some it hurts more than at others...). So, by the time i get home i feel beter.

also dont do situps and crunches etc. the only real stomach training i do is in the "standing sit-up machine", i have no idea what its real name is. but thats what it dose. its like a situp but youre standing up, so gravity holds your food down.

I don't think there is any of that kind of machine ... or maybe there is ... what are sit-ups ?

I had a similar problem. When I did excercice, I felt completly exhausted to be point of nausea, if I did NOT eat before. But also if I eat to much.The key for me was to eat something with quickly to assimile enery, ie sugar.

I tried not eating at all before gym once, (did i say i hate eating ?) and it didn't turn out to good. I got exhausted really quick, and a little nauseause, but not as much as in my problem ... and then it felt like if i would eat smthing it would pass (which it did). Now it doesn't feel that way at all...

So if I ate something like a bar of chocolate (something with a lot of sugar), something like 1 hour to 30 minutes before excerice, it was ok.

I think i might try adding more sugar to my before-gym meal ... (and removing smthing else of course).

@funxus: Well, i do get head spins from lowerback exercises (and lots of other things).


The thing is i can't really eat too early before going to the gym. Because the bloody courses at the faculty are in the way... I could buy an all hours pass... but that would cost double from what i have now.

I dunno ... i'll see if it will get worse next time (monday). And think of getting money for an all hour pass. I'll post here what happens. (if i wake up at the hospital via ambulance or smthing like that)

 

[Sidhe]

Well, technicaly i eat an adequet amount of food in general - but i hate it.
@sidhe: I'll leave the doctor as a last resort, no money.

What your describing sounds nothing like what the other people are referring to, it just sounds a bit odd and I'd be midlly worried if I was you.

See that's why the NHS is so good, free, wouldn't even think twice of not going to the doctor if I'd suffered with this for some time and totally free treatment all the way up to open heart surgery or whatever I tell you what if you want free medical advice here's what I'll do, I work in a hospital, and although I don't personally know any doctors, the next time I'm in a position to ask one about it, I'll ask him what he thinks it might be? Give me a week or so, I'm not working 'til Teusday, who knows I might be able to come up with something

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Could be a heart problem. See a cardiologist.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What your describing sounds nothing like what the other people are referring to, it just sounds a bit odd and I'd be midlly worried if I was you.

See that's why the NHS is so good, free, wouldn't even think twice of not going to the doctor if I'd suffered with this for some time and totally free treatment all the way up to open heart surgery or whatever I tell you what if you want free medical advice here's what I'll do, I work in a hospital, and although I don't personally know any doctors, the next time I'm in a position to ask one about it, I'll ask him what he thinks it might be? Give me a week or so, I'm not working 'til Teusday, who knows I might be able to come up with something

Maybe we should wait to see what will happen next time before you ask. I apreciate your help.
I used to be worried about geting nauseause at certain moments (since i have a history of upper digestive sistem illnesses). And i did go to the doctors then, but i got (after lots of tests) either "we don't know" or "you seem to be healthy" or "i think that you might have ..." or "it is possible you might have had ... but it passed, so you're ok now"(this was 1 month before that problem came back...); and other stuff like that... So i got fed up with paying ppl to tell me they don't know or they are not sure. That is why i don't go to the doctors for this kinds problems.

@bozo - i don't think heart problems make ppl puke. And i'm preety sure it's from the stomach area. I had lots of pains at the digestive system so i know when the gall bladder is starting to act up again, when there is smthing wrong in the stomach and when smthing is going on in the intestines.