Nausea and lifting weights

Scarlet 27

I become nauseated and sometimes vomiting after lifting weights. Sometimes I can almost complete an hour long session and sometimes it occurs sooner. I have never had this problem with cardio workouts no matter how tired I am or how hard the workout is, it just seems to be the weights that have this effect.

I am totally new to lifting weights (haven't done cardio in a while due to illness so general fitness level isn't great) I imagine that maybe it is just my lack of fitness and the fact that I am training with a PT once a week who pushes me incredible hard. I try to make sure I eat something high in protein about 1.5 hours before hand, not sure if this the correct thing to do or if I should just work out on an empty stomach or perhaps have something high in carbs? I have to admit the nausea is really putting me off the weights although I can already see the difference it is making to my shape.

I am female, 26 and 5 foot 4 (just in case that makes any difference). Any advise on this would be great even if it is just that the nausea will pass with time.

howtomake

Is it a long lasting nausea or just something that comes and goes right after you've done an exercise? You might have to isolate the cause a bit more.

I do get a pukey feeling myself but that usually just last a little while and only after doing a specific exercise strenuously, but its a good pukey feeling, nothing like a hangover.

TommyKnocker

Can I ask what "High Protein" meal you would usually eat 1.5 hours prior to training?

Also what time are you training and what is you diet like throughout the day?

Bassboxxx

Wow, this happened to me today. can I jump in on this? Ignore me if i'm not wanted!! lol


I had wheatabix and banana at 8 o clock,
bowl of porridge with raisins at 12,
fruit smoothie at 2, kiwi, orange, apple, greek yoghurt.

trained at 3 for 45 mins low weights high reps and felt so sick at the end I had to leave the gym. I'm fit enough so I don't think it's that.

TommyKnocker

Bassboxxx wrote: »

Wow, this happened to me today. can I jump in on this? Ignore me if i'm not wanted!! lol


I had wheatabix and banana at 8 o clock,
bowl of porridge with raisins at 12,
fruit smoothie at 2, kiwi, orange, apple, greek yoghurt.

trained at 3 for 45 mins low weights high reps and felt so sick at the end I had to leave the gym. I'm fit enough so I don't think it's that.

Personally speaking I would leave a longer time period between my last meal and training, usually around 2.5 hours or so.

You could try having some form of protein with the porridge at 12, cottage cheese is a slow release protein, and the porridge provides slow release carbs, so with this you should not need to eat prior to training at 3.

Give it a try and see how you get on. Every body is different. Some folks can tolerate food a short while before training and some folks can't. It's about finding what works for you.

Bassboxxx

TommyKnocker wrote: »

Personally speaking I would leave a longer time period between my last meal and training, usually around 2.5 hours or so.

You could try having some form of protein with the porridge at 12, cottage cheese is a slow release protein, and the porridge provides slow release carbs, so with this you should not need to eat prior to training at 3.

Give it a try and see how you get on. Every body is different. Some folks can tolerate food a short while before training and some folks can't. It's about finding what works for you.

Thanks, makes sense, I eat at least 3/4 hours before I play football so why should it be different, for some reason I was making sure I wasn't anyway hungry going training.

deadlybuzzman

if youre able maybe go into the gym with pretty much an empty stomach perhaps drink some water beforehand and then sip juice during the session-used to work for me for both grappling in the past and in the gym, it gave me enough energy to stay strong but a small enough volume to not put pressure on my stomach.

High reps particularly on compound movements like squats can make you say hello to god on the big white telephone quite easily-I nearly puked and fainted myself yesterday! might be no harm to ease up on the amount of reps, maybe add some weight instead

siochain

one of the ladies at kickboxing was reporting something similar and went to doc. Doc said she was anaemic and prescribed weekly b12 injections.

Best thing would be go to the doc and have bloods and blood pressure checked, just to be sure.

Scarlet 27

Thanks for all the replies. Well I usually eat scrambled eggs and an apple in the morning, have almonds, goji berries & pumpkin seeds to snack on, soup with brown bread for lunch and oven baked chicken or fish and veg for dinner.

It doesn't seem to matter when I work out morning or evening (although usually evening) I still get the nausea and depending on how hard the work out is it can last for 30mins or a couple of hours and it feels awful not the happy exhausted feeling I get from cardio at all. I already use weights when doing squats and lunges and doing about 12 reps of each.

I had anaemia before christmas but was taking an iron supplement for it and the last set of bloods in January were fine, but I might take one again as my diet has changed so I am probably not getting enough iron. I do try to drink water at work, I aim for 2 litres a day (although dont always succeed) and also I drink green tea as well, so I should be hydrated enough although maybe I should use a sports drink while working out?

deadlybuzzman

Might be time to head back to the docs office so. 1 thing though, if the nauseas a new thing chances are something else has changed around the same time to cause it.
That said, anything medical isnt our place to guess about

WallyGUFC

Same-ish thing happened me. 1st day of a new plan, at the very end I almost fainted. Bottle of Powerade and I was grand then. Though I hadn't ate much that day. I always eat right before going to the gym now and nothing like it since.