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Getting dizzy doing power cleans

  • 24-03-2010 8:58am
    #1
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,821 ✭✭✭


    I started back on the gym this week after a lengthy lay off. I have taken things relatively easy, just trying to settle back into a routine and get form back.

    I did power cleans last night for the first time in a fair while. I did the warm UPS no problem. But before I had hardly any weight on the bar, I started to get dizzy in the middle of them, just when I dropped it back down from the rack position. First time I thought it was just the jump threw me a bit, but on the third set I felt like i was gonna fall back and the music in my headphones started to go in slow motion!

    I dropped rhe weight back down and did the rest of my sets without too. much trouble.

    This ever happen to anybody before? I had gotten real slight bits of dizziness before on heavy sets but never anything enough to concern me. It wasn't even as if i was finding it particularly heavy.


    Could it have anything to do with my breathing?


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  • #2
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    It's called weightlifters blackout and it's something I'm going through a bout of at the moment too :)

    The olympic lifts rely heavily (no pun intended) on good breathing techniques - sometimes when we get them wrong (or if you're having blood pressure problems, if you're a bit tired, if you haven't eaten in a while) as your doing the lifts blood flow is temproarily diverted away from the head and to the rest of the body and you get a momentary blackout. It doesn't tend to be very serious, but the danger is always that you'll fall over and crack your head on a bar or a plate.

    If it happens again just stop, relax for a few minutes and drop the weight back if you want to keep going. For power cleans you don't need to be holding your breath for the entire lift, just for the pulls.


  • #3
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,821 ✭✭✭floggg


    Thanks. Thought that's what it was alright but good to know its not anything more serious. I did stop once I dropped weight down and focused on breathing.

    Yea it could have been disastrous as there was a couple of guys standing behind me playing with dumbells that I would have ploughed into. I can't imagine that would have ended well


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