Nausea after sets of squats

Howard

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Will this go away eventually or is this sometime I have to endure for the sake of my own body?
 

Whisper

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How long after eating are you working out, how many reps are you doing, and how long are you resting between sets? It may be something to which your body acclimates, or you may simply be going too hard, too fast.

Then again, if you ask Ahhhhnold, he'd probably say that throwing up is a perfectly natural part of working out. In all honesty, I don't know that there's any particular harm in it happening now and again, but it's definitely not a necessary component of training.
 

Howard

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I had dinner about an hour ago, but wasn't feeling particularly full before starting my workout. I've also felt nauseous in workouts where hours had elapsed since my last meal.

Between 5-8 reps, and a few minutes between sets. When it gets bad, I wait longer until the nausea subsides to what I feel is an acceptable level before starting my next set.
 

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brikis98

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How long have you been squatting? How long has the squatting caused nausea? Does it happen every squat session? Does it happen during other exercises (deadlifts, cleans, etc)? How are you breathing? What is your diet like? Any other symptoms?

For the record, a small amount of dizziness after a heavy set of squats is not out of the norm. In fact, extremely hard exertion in any exercise, especially one involving heavy breathing and pressurization of your torso, can cause you to feel a bit light headed. However, if it is long lasting or happens too frequently, it's probably a sign something is wrong.
 

Howard

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About 3 months... for about 2 weeks, usually every squat session. I do squats first, and the other exercises after don't really cause much, if any. Not sure I understand your question about my breathing.

bacon and eggs in the morning, rice and meat and veggies for lunch, dinner is rice and whatever, post-workout is a weight gainer shake.
 

Jahee

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You say you've eaten dinner and worked out within an hour?? I'd say thats the problem. I don't do any form of exercise within an hour and a half of eating or i'll almost always feel sick or get a stitch or something..
 

The Sauce

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I would get consistently nauseated during and after intense workouts the first few months after I started until my fitness level improved. It eventually went away. I assumed it was lactate buildup.
 
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I would get consistently nauseated during and after intense workouts the first few months after I started until my fitness level improved. It eventually went away. I assumed it was lactate buildup.

It also probably has to do with other exercise adaptations. Did you also start doing more cardio when you started lifting? One of the main adaptations to exercise is greater parasympathetic (vagal) tone at any workload. Because of this, you can maintain greater splanchnic blood flow (due to less vasoconstriction from decreased concentration of adrenergic compounds). Most people get nauseous when all the blood drains from their GI tract. That happens from high levels of epinephrine and norepinephrine. Exercise decreases that effect and therefore may decrease the feeling of nausea. Exercise gives some really cool adaptations - less physiological stress response is one of those
 

brikis98

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for about 2 weeks, usually every squat session.
Usually or always? If it's on and off, try your best to spot the differences between the days you don't get nauseas and the days you do.

Not sure I understand your question about my breathing.
There is a proper breathing technique for squats (and all heavy lifts, actually) and not everyone does it correctly. Holding your breath for the entire set, for example, could easily cause nausea. The right way to do it is:

1. Use the Valsalva maneuver (VM) and immediately start the rep.
2. As you come back up, allow your body to naturally regulate pressure in the form of a "hiss" or grunt.
3. After the rep is over, take several normal breaths before starting the next one.

It is worth mentioning that the VM itself may cause dizziness if you aren't used to it. However, just as your muscles adapt to squatting, your circulatory system will adapt to the higher pressures of the VM as well. After a while, dizziness should be very rare, only happening after extreme exertions (ie, new 1RM attempts).

bacon and eggs in the morning, rice and meat and veggies for lunch, dinner is rice and whatever, post-workout is a weight gainer shake.
I was interested in your diet for two reasons:

1. Low carb diets seem to cause dizziness after exercise, especially if you recently started one. It doesn't look like this applies to you though.

2. If you eat either too long before a workout or too close to a workout, nausea may result. Too long before is usually just low blood sugar and easily solved by having a snack (fruit works well) before exercise. Too close to a workout is pretty self explanatory and something that a lot of people struggle with. See if keeping 2+ hours between eating and squatting helps.
 

Howard

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Ah, I do use the VM and I do breathe between reps. I'll try breathing longer between reps, but I think I do that naturally as I try to get my breath back during the later reps of a set.
 

darkxshade

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Oh good times... I remember I used to get nausea on occasion when I first started working out. It was after I completed my workouts though but it started with the squating. I think I taxed my body too much that I had to sit on the bench in the locker room and cool down. It felt like any sudden movements would make me hurl... kinda like sea sickness. I don't get that anymore though.
 

MJinZ

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Nausea may simply be because your overall circulatory health is not good. Do you get nauseated after sex too?

I would personally drop the Bacon... but that's just me.

And Dinner after workout, not before.
 
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Nausea may simply be because your overall circulatory health is not good. Do you get nauseated after sex too?

I would personally drop the Bacon... but that's just me.

And Dinner after workout, not before.

Considering that every lifter I know, at some point, has been nauseous after squatting, I doubt it's a problem with circulatory health. If it were a circulatory problem, it is likely that the OP would have other symptoms as well. If an individual is exercising regularly, dropping bacon is not necessary. Exercise decreases LDL cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol, therefore limiting the risk of moderate saturated fat consumption.
 

MJinZ

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Considering that every lifter I know, at some point, has been nauseous after squatting, I doubt it's a problem with circulatory health. If it were a circulatory problem, it is likely that the OP would have other symptoms as well. If an individual is exercising regularly, dropping bacon is not necessary. Exercise decreases LDL cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol, therefore limiting the risk of moderate saturated fat consumption.

Hehe, I have never been nauseous after squatting! Dizziness, sometimes. I am not crazy hard-core squatter though, since my knees bother me on occasion.

Increasing HDL protein and decreasing LDL protein is good and all, but if you still have huge amounts of total cholesterol, your arteries will not be happy.
 
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Hehe, I have never been nauseous after squatting! Dizziness, sometimes. I am not crazy hard-core squatter though, since my knees bother me on occasion.

Increasing HDL protein and decreasing LDL protein is good and all, but if you still have huge amounts of total cholesterol, your arteries will not be happy.

Two pieces of bacon has anywhere from 70-100 calories and 2-4g of saturated fat. Unless you have a genetic predisposition for having poor cholesterol, you'll be just fine. Also, if you have high total cholesterol, but it's composed of high HDL, low LDL, and you have low triglycerides, there isn't anything really to worry about. Being above 200 is not bad in a case like that. Being above 250 probably would be, but being above the normal cap of 200 wouldn't.
 

SlitheryDee

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I have been extremely dizzy after heavy or very high rep sets of squats. Hell, I've seen spots floating before my eyes after doing heavy deadlifts. High exertion can make you feel funny for a little while afterwards. The only times I've ever felt like I might be about to hurl was during intense workouts where I was doing many exercises back to back with little or no rest. That's a different kind of nausea altogether.

I'm betting that you're feeling the same thing everyone else feels when they do a particularly stressful exercise. I'm not sure it ever goes away completely. You just get used to it.
 

The Sauce

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It also probably has to do with other exercise adaptations. Did you also start doing more cardio when you started lifting? One of the main adaptations to exercise is greater parasympathetic (vagal) tone at any workload. Because of this, you can maintain greater splanchnic blood flow (due to less vasoconstriction from decreased concentration of adrenergic compounds). Most people get nauseous when all the blood drains from their GI tract. That happens from high levels of epinephrine and norepinephrine. Exercise decreases that effect and therefore may decrease the feeling of nausea. Exercise gives some really cool adaptations - less physiological stress response is one of those

That makes perfect sense. You, sir, are a veritable fount of information.
 
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