Red face during & after exercise

Closed ac

After maybe 15 minutes of exercise, my face slowly turns a red colour. Now I'm not talking about your normal reddish cheeks, my whole face turns beetroot red and the colour doesn't fade until about half an hour after exercise.

What's causing this and why does my skin turn so red compared to other people? I'm not overweight or unfit? Also, anyone else have the same problem and know of a way to prevent it or at least help improve the problem. It's quite embarrassing & I'm sick of it!

cardio,shoot me

if your lifting heavy weights you will most likely get it at one stage.

i get it, hanley gets it, podge gets it, and ive seen a picture of maikiomi and he had it too, dont worry too much about it.

EileenG

It's common if you are lifting intensely. I suspect that people who don't go red are not pushing themselves.

It might sound a bit girly, but a moisturiser with a green tint tones down the red dramatically. Also makes you look ill if you want to get off work.....

corkcomp

you dont even need to be lifting weights for it to happen. hiit or prolonged running does same with me. i wouldnt worry tbh, espeecially not in a gym situation

G86

DKZ wrote: »

After maybe 15 minutes of exercise, my face slowly turns a red colour. Now I'm not talking about your normal reddish cheeks, my whole face turns beetroot red and the colour doesn't fade until about half an hour after exercise.

What's causing this and why does my skin turn so red compared to other people? I'm not overweight or unfit? Also, anyone else have the same problem and know of a way to prevent it or at least help improve the problem. It's quite embarrassing & I'm sick of it!

Always happens me, it just means your working your ass off, so fair play:)

70%coco

This happens to me too, after running, afterwards, the roasting hot changing room in the gym doesn't help much either. Don't have a solution but I'm interested in one.

runrabbit

Happens to me too! :mad: I look like I'm going to have a heart attack even though I'm fit and healthy and feeling fine!

I may be completely wrong in this but it also happens to one of my friends and both of us would have very pale/fair colouring (typical Irish, freckly, so-pale-it's-almost-blue skin). Since I've never noticed it as much with anyone else I always thought there might be some connection to our colouring?!

beefjerky

I got the same thing, after a game of 5aside or a run, but I am not pale and have dark hair, it happens to loads of people so I don't worry about it!

beegirl

That happens to me too! I can always see people looking at me like "oh my god, that girl's about to have a heart attack!!!" Even when I was fairly fit it used to happen, so I don't think it goes away if you get fitter unfortunately. Barring that horrible green moisturiser stuff, I think we just have to get used to it!!! And stop caring what other people might be thinking...

fatmammycat

Heh, don't worry about it. I am LOBSTER red during and after exercise. It's become a running joke at this stage, ie if I am NOT bright red I am skiving or not putting in 100% effort. Some people just have high colouring. I'm as fit as a fiddle too, makes no difference.

EDIT- Actually, at this stage I prefer the fire engine red to the glorious mottled blue/purple I am before I start exercise. Winter and cold weather does NOT suit me.

Oryx

I get that beetroot face too. Its just one of those things some people get, like blushing. But when I work REALLY hard, I get white blotches as well as the red, which is really attractive.:D

Cheeky_gal

EileenG wrote: »

It's common if you are lifting intensely. I suspect that people who don't go red are not pushing themselves.

It might sound a bit girly, but a moisturiser with a green tint tones down the red dramatically. Also makes you look ill if you want to get off work.....

Works a charm. No.7 do a great one in boots for little or nothing

evolutionqy7

i get a red nose...i remember when i was in school i used to come back after PE and every would ask was i in a fight after every single session lol its damn annoyin

Closed ac

Looks like it's pretty common tgen, but I never really noticed it on many other people.

Also, does it take ages to go away after exercising, or just me?

beegirl

Yeah I could be still bright red for a good hour after stopping! Maybe even longer... but then again I am a very rosy-cheeked person anyway :o:o

J76

Hi, Take at look at this website it might be of help. Its about a facial skin condition called rosacea which has the sort of symptoms you describe.

http://www.drnase.com/

Stokolan

I suffer from it myself. After 10 - 15 min I gets very red. I dont lift weights only go cycling. I've always seemed to be this way.

Closed ac

J76 wrote: »

Hi, Take at look at this website it might be of help. Its about a facial skin condition called rosacea which has the sort of symptoms you describe.

http://www.drnase.com/

I don't think I have rosacea, isn't that constant redness?

beegirl

DKZ wrote: »

I don't think I have rosacea, isn't that constant redness?

Yes I think so, and raised, bumpy patches on skin aswell.

Assets Model

I find a cold shower helps quite alot or at least a shot of cold water onto my head that helps my puce face. I wouldn't be that arsed wearing that green moisturiser I never found that good at all. I think just accepting you'll look like a minger when exercising is the plan.

líreacán

I get it too!! I've just started going to the gym and I'm always the red-est one in there! And all around my mouth stays white, very strange. But then I get super red if it's anyway warm at all too.

I guess that we just have a higher red-ratio than most people. Maybe we could start our own gym, so none of us look weird...

beegirl

líreacán wrote: »

And all around my mouth stays white, very strange.

I know a girl who said she stays white around her mouth too! Coincidence...

Assets Model wrote: »

I think just accepting you'll look like a minger when exercising is the plan.

Haha agreed. Just don't go trying to flirt with any boys in the gym though (see other thread!)

Beau

I put a towel over the mirror in front of the squat rack, can't be looking at my mental red face.

lubie76

Make sure you keep well hydrated if you have a red face while exercising as there is a possibility that it may be that your skin is insufficiently hydrated to produce sweat for thermoregulation of the body. If you are both red and sweating you are probably fine though.

EileenG

Just carry some porn and let everything think that's why you've got a big red face.

**Timbuk2**

EileenG wrote: »

It might sound a bit girly, but a moisturiser with a green tint tones down the red dramatically. Also makes you look ill if you want to get off work.....

Em.. embarassing but
[whispers]What would you recommend? Also does it make your face look green, because that's not much better[/whispers]

<-Me before exercise
<-Me during exercise
:P<-In the hour following exercise (less red)
<-About an hour after I stopped exercising

lubie76

No. 7 which you will find in nearly every chemist do a green tint in a tube that isn't too girly looking. Just don't go mad with it. A little goes a long way.