26 replies to this topic

[ajnast4r]

i almost ALWAYS get nauseous after lifting or running... does anyone else get this? its hard for me to choke down my post workout shake sometimes without feeling like im gonna puke, and sometimes even an hour later when i eat im still nauseous.... is there anything i can do to combat this?

tia

[Shepard]

"If you've never vomited from doing a set of barbell curls, then you've never experienced outright hard work." -Arthur Jones

I don't think there is anything to do to combat that feeling. I feel that way every time I work my lower body.

[bgwowk]

You feel nauseated, not nauseous. Nauseous means you make other people feel nauseated. At least I hope you are not nauseous.

---BrianW

[Matt]

Maybe calm down a bit when doing a particular excersise that makes this happen. There is no point in pushing yourself to the point of feeling like you are going to vomit.

[liorrh]

get some buffers in you before hand. its probably lactate and other waste products buildup

I can't remember the last time I was nauseous after a workout. its all about the PH...

[icyT]

Don't eat 3-4 hours before excercising, and don't eat too fat food

Fat food's fine, fat is quite quickly processed I believe.

[canz]

Are you diabetic? During strenuous workouts glycogen levels are depleted in the body. You may be nauseated because of this? I am just taking a stab, I have no scientific or clinical data to back this up, nor do I know whether this could cause nausea, but I'm taking a guess. Blood sugar may be too low? In other words I'm "throwing a bone" out there to someone who can expand on this....

[kevin]

Get an x-ray of your spine and check around t1-t3 as I believe these are the segments where the nerves supply your digestive system. Pinching or stimulation in this area can lead to nausea.

[joee]

not exactly, grey communicants that arise from one segment can exit the sympathetic chain -at the same level, and up to 6 levels up or down from that segment. So technically- if spinal segmental dysfunction (at t1-t3) is the culprit, you gotta look from atlas to t9!

x-rays will only show VERY gross areas of disfunction as well- no need to expose your prescious body to harmful x-rays.

Also, strong nociceptive input (due to dysfunction) from ANY spinal segment(s) can lead to sympathetic dominance and give nausea- but that would probably be more constant and not nessisarily aggrivated by workout.

[johnmk]

I've been nauseated after working out before and I suspect it was due to low blood sugar . . . but who really knows. My doctor agrees that low blood sugar is a high possibility.

[ddhewitt]

At one point I would throw up if I did a strenuous workout within two hours of eating anything substatial.

[johnmk]

I should add that my symptoms included feeling faint and snowy eye-sight that would have got worse had I not lain down. So perhaps we aren't experiencing precisely the same thing.

[opales]

sorry could not resist.. [glasses]

You feel nauseated, not nauseous. Nauseous means you make other people feel nauseated. At least I hope you are not nauseous.

---BrianW

Most dictionaries list nauseous meaning 1) causing nausea 2) affected with nausea (below three entries from dictionary.com). While latter being technically incorrect, that is actually the meaning most people understand (so in a few years it probably will not be considered faulty by any standard).
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nauseous

1)Causing nausea; sickening: “the most nauseous offal fit for the gods” (John Fowles).
2)(Usage Problem, note below). Affected with nausea.

Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean “causing nausea” and that it is incorrect to use it to mean “affected with nausea,” as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean “feeling sick,” it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its “correct” sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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nau·seous (nôshs, -z-s)
adj.

Causing nausea.
Affected with nausea.

Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry: nau·seous
Pronunciation: 'no-sh&s, 'no-zE-&s
Function: adjective
1 : causing nausea
2 : affected with nausea

Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

[bgwowk]

Sigh. Reminds me of another pet language peeve. Sometime around the 1980s I first started to hear misuse of the term "begs the question", which actually refers to a type of logical fallacy. Now the term is almost universally used by journalists and other people who should know better to mean "raises the question." It drives me nuts to hear it.

---BrianW

[joee]

johnmk- sounds possibly like a blood pressure issue
specially if youve sweat alot, and havent replenished h2o supplies

drinking straight water is better than nothing, but on days of 'snowey eyesight' and faint feelings upon standing up too quickly- try h2o with some salt in it (specially BEFORE the workout) -during the workout is a good idea as well (I use gatoraide- dilute)

[curious_sle]

Um, if i remember my reading up on working out well there are a few factors involved.

If you work out hard you rapdily deplet your glycogen and your body is forced to switch to ketogenic energy. I remember reading that you should not work out hard (HIT etc) for more then 30 minutes as after that you just get cortisol too much up and you waste muscle mass. Important is to drink plenty, best all 15 minutes during the excercise for you loose a lot of water. Obvisouly as you sweat you loose salt hence with lot's of sweating your blood preassure can be affected depending on your body's ability to regulate blood preassure. So a little salt might be due too.

Hope this is not too wrong :-) and helps a little :-)

Regards
Curious

[joee]

correct, you want to volumise the blood.
You do this by adding water, and increasing osmotic pressure via the salt or gatoraide (water will 'chase' the salt that is absorbed into the bloodstream).

this probably sounds a little counterintuative as Im sure you hear 'no salt' all the time for blood pressure problems, but what we are talking about here is a lack of blood pressure.

Of course, if there is a known preexisting BP issue, one should be communicating and listening to their doctor....

[icyT]

Little bit of fat is fine, but very fatty meal will take up to 8 hours to digest

To the contrary, fat doesn't take much energy to digest at all compared to protein.

[BetUWishUWereMe]

To all you self proclaimed English grammar teachers... knock it off

nau·seous –adjective 1.affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous. 2.causing nausea; sickening; nauseating. 3.disgusting; loathsome: a nauseous display of greed. [Origin: 1595–1605; < L nauseōsus. See nausea, -ous]
Usage note The two literal senses of nauseous, “causing nausea” (a nauseous smell) and “affected with nausea” (to feel nauseous), appear in English at almost the same time in the early 17th century, and both senses are in standard use at the present time. Nauseous is more common than nauseated in the sense “affected with nausea,” despite recent objections by those who imagine the sense to be new. In the sense “causing nausea,” either literally or figuratively, nauseating has become more common than nauseous: a nauseating smell.

Edited by BetUWishUWereMe, 18 July 2008 - 03:53 PM.

[BetUWishUWereMe]

To 'NAUSEOUS after working out'

"There are several possible answers. Low blood sugar or hypoglycemia engenders discomfort, light headedness and a tingling muscular slump. This is common and dangerous yet can be quickly treated by rest and the restoration of blood sugar - the immediate ingestion of protein and high glycemic carbs.

The state of being deconditioned accounts for our early submission to exercise overload resulting in rapid breathing, muscular fatigue, and dizziness. An untuned system is incapable of attaining an optimum performance level and the accompanying endorphins that subdue pain and heighten well being. Yet, we've seen this happen to elite Olympians when they thrust themselves into the outer orbits of performance.

The real culprits here are the metabolic wastes that pack the system resulting in nasty low blood pH and toxin overload. The body, like any energy generating factory, produces prodigious amounts of toxins and must eliminate them entirely and efficiently — or fail.

For us the solutions are easy. Hydrate — drink oceans of water, thirsty or not. Dilute and wash away the junk. Accept a 15 minute post workout low as your system detoxifies. Your discomfort is an indicator of a killer workout.

Restore and refuel your body with first class protein and carbs. Then sit back and grow like an orchid amongst the briars." - Dave Draper www.davedraper.com

Edited by BetUWishUWereMe, 18 July 2008 - 03:50 PM.

[Shepard]

To all you self proclaimed English grammar teachers... knock it off

Way to bring back a thread from the grave.

It's never been a conflict in the definition. As far as I know, Strunk & White were the only people to bring the nauseous/nauseated issue to light. They made up a lot of stuff based on their own style and preferences.

b. orig. U.S. Of a person: affected with nausea; having an unsettled stomach; (fig.) disgusted, affected with distaste or loathing.
1885 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Apr.. 2/5, I..was bumped up and down and oscillated and see-sawed from side to side until I became nauseous. 1927 Chicago Tribune 9 May 10/3 This lasts ten or fifteen minutes, then I have a terrible headache and I feel nauseous. 1949 Sat. Rev. 7 May 41 After taking dramamine, not only did the woman's hives clear up, but she discovered that her usual trolley ride back home no longer made her nauseous. 1955 R. LINDNER Fifty-minute Hour i. 41 Always when he thought of his mother Charles would feel a little sick; not actually sick{em}perhaps nauseous was the better word. 1977 Washington Post 15 May C4/1, I would go into the bathroom late at night and put hot and cold compresses over my eyes. I'd feel queasy and nauseous. 2000 Shop@home No. 7. 21/4 If the thought of Xmas makes you nauseous, maybe you need to get away.

Edited by shepard, 18 July 2008 - 06:57 PM.

[Ben]

To 'NAUSEOUS after working out'

....blah blah, barely coherent narcissistic rant, blah blah...

Wow I think I'm going to be sick speaking of nausea.

Can we get a mod to remove the link to this child's silly website?

And no shmykel, I do not wish I were you. Go do some more curls in the mirror.

[ajnast4r]

wow way to resurrect and old thread!

anyway i started having meal w/ 40-50G complex carbs 2-4 hours before my workout and never got sick again

[TianZi]

i almost ALWAYS get nauseous after lifting or running... does anyone else get this? its hard for me to choke down my post workout shake sometimes without feeling like im gonna puke, and sometimes even an hour later when i eat im still nauseous.... is there anything i can do to combat this?

tia

This isn't uncommon. It can happen because you are a beginner and your body hasn't adapted to the intensity of your exercise regimen or certain exercises you do, or because these exercises produce a surge in endogenous HGH production which causes nausea. In this respect, Arnold S. frequently puked while weight lifting (probably due to hormonal surges), and actually kept a bucket by his side while lifting so he could puke without taking a break. Also see Shepard's post in this regard.

Although this may not apply to you, some people produce an excessive amount of phlegm while exercising that gathers at the base of their throat, constricting breathing and causing retching.

EDIT: One more thing--metabolism boosting supplements (ephedra, etc.) can also cause nausea, so if you are using any, consider using them either after, or several hours before, your workout.

Edited by TianZi, 23 July 2008 - 09:00 AM.