+ 3 Training so hard you puke?
I'm very familiar with this. I spent the better part of my life in a boxing gym. Countless hours training and preparing. Every now and then the trainers would bring in new strength & conditioning coaches with this new school of thought on fitness and they'd break us down to the point of absolute exhaustion. And just when we would feel like we would collapse , they'd yell and scream for us to push harder. Well sometimes it worked to motivate and other times I would just puke,... literally. I know this also happens in bodybuilding/powerlifting. When you push your body to its limits, something has to give. It's your body telling you to stop, that's enough. It would only happen to me when I had done something that I'd never done before and after a few sessions with that kind of training, I adapted and could go further. I'm sure it isn't healthy, but its not exactly going to kill you either. You'll pass out long before you die. So my question, how common is this? Has it happened to you? Ever felt like you were going to puke? Or pass out? How did you respond to it and did it make you stronger or weaker (mentally or physically) the next time out?
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my problem has been on many occasions not enough water, when I train in the early AM it sometimes happens cause i dont like to drink alot of water before bed or im up all night pissing(thats what happens when you get old)....also get headaches and nausea from it as well.....I see it more in the winter time when its harder for me to drink alot of water.
I have the same issue in the winter. It's easy to chug water in the blistering heat. You're always thirsty. But when I'm cold or its cold outside I don't drink nearly as much as I should. I learned quite a bit from this post. I knew that when you're training ,the blood is rushing to the muscles and taking away from other parts of the body. That's the reason I thought you shouldn't train two big muscle groups in the same day. Taking blood from the the muscles you started training and sending it to the second set of large muscles essentially robbing the first of oxygen and nutrients carried through the blood. But I never thought of the digestive system part. What Vike said. The body starts shutting down and blood leaves to rush to the muscles. Digestive tract Is one of the first things to go ,hence puking! It's got me interested enough that I want to research it now.
no doubt a couple gallons a day in the summer, camel up in the winter and its hard to get down 16 ounces!....
You know when ive seen you guys post about blasting 2 galls a day i think to myself how the fk they that..... over here its always fkn cold and getting the fluids in is hard going sometimes....... you just answered my question bro.. its about the temperatures as to how much we can blast in easily.
What's it like right now over there? Temperature I mean? You don't have hot summers?
right now its ... 24c ... thats about 78f... and this is a warm day for a change lol
its been right at 110* for a week now! I finish my first gallon of ice water before noon! another before I get off work and then still drinking tumblers of ice water till I go to bed!
That is a good point I get more dehydrated in the winter then in a hot environment.
I use to train with and older guy in my teens, if you didn't pile while squaring you wasn't going hard enough
Damn I thought puking was the norm for training! ;)
Regarding WHY we puke.... its because we put the muscle under such demand for fresh oxygen and blood that the stomach is left blood free and the digestive system stops working = it wants to empty the contents before they go sour and start to poison you.
Once intensity stops the blood flows back and the digestive system boots back up..... all is normal again until TOMORROW!.. when we beat that bad boy all over again lmfaooooo
As is usual, thanks for the education brother Vike! This was something that always bewildered me.
never knew why i felt like like that certain days, good insight and appreciate the knowledge dropped as usual
Lol! That's it, just a matter of adjusting! And that's why lil mama is right back at it as we speak.
are you in the gym now????........ if so. give it another forced rep or two for me bro lol
i started my gf lifting with me, and her first ATG squat day she had to run to the bathroom and puke after 4 sets. Badass. Now she gets mad at me if i dont push her hard enough. LOL i think i found the one!
That's pretty much what happened and prompted this post! Lol
Yep... if i dont cough a chunk up every day im doing something wrong...... sometimes when i have bounced the central nervous system so hard it can upto 3hrs before the shakes stop.. trembling starts real low in the base of the gut and then goes into the limbs...... i fkn looooove it lmaoooooooo
These modern gyms are shit and for pussies... they complain when you spew the floor and cant stop farting..... fk me thats just normal when you train hardcore.
Haha Ive had a couple occasions when he manager has come out of her office with a can of air freshener and sprayed it in my general area due to some gas.
Have also been asked to "put the weights down quieter" while doing deads ..... its the only gym in my town.....
Good description on why he barf happens, was always curious, Ive gotta step up the training a few notches I guess as its been a while since I had a squat barf.
BigBmajThat's what happens to me when I lift really heavy. My nervous system gets hit so hard I can't stop shaking, can't sleep at night, and have no desire for food. It's like a jolt of pure electricity.
I must be doing it wrong. Lol. I get the feeling that I might fall the fuck out, but don't puke often.
x2...lol
AnonGlad to know I'm not the only one who pukes every day.
MOST IMPORTANTLY..... i tell this to all my trainees....
DONT FORGET TO PICK UP AND EAT ALL THE BIG BITS..... THATS QUALITY PROTEIN RIGHT DER LOL:).
oh dear god that disgusting yet hilarious and somehow accurate all at the same time! you sir are a genius and god amongst us mere mortals
I just spewed my coffee all over! As an aside, does facebook have the 'like' feature patented? Comments like this need it.
lol...got me in a good mood today brother heres +3 for staining your shirt lol
Told you. ;-)
Anonnevvvver doubted you for a second love.
It proves you are hitting a certain leve lof intensity babe..... nothing wrong with that!..... you see the ones that haunt the gym for years and never grow?.... they never spew up either... thats why they drag their sad fkn asses into a place were they dont belong and sit on the fkn machines texting their frIEnds ..... i fkn hate the bastuuurds... fancy clean training shoes and iphones in a gym WTF!!!
Yup!! Do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got.
lol. I love my shoes too much to wear fresh ones tho the gym. I wear shoes my pit tore up so it looks like I was attacked by a warewolf! I need to work on spewing more. It's a nice big, fancy gym with lots and lots of people. Should I say sorry and walk away when I'm done or make someone clean it up? lol
Not a chance do you appoloise, thats the moment when you stand there looking at it going now that is what happens when you train properly you bunch of pussies. haha
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO......... trust walla for a comment like that lol
shit bro.... you and me hit a gym we would both be banned within 10mins for projectile vomiting all over some fkn geeks iphone.......... lol......lol
This just became my new motivation quote! Abaddon and I have a chalk board that we write notes, quotes, motivation on... You just made it on there Vikie! Love U!
LOL.... glad you like it but you down voted me :(
and theres me thinkin bout puttin you on my crissy card list... lmfaooooooo
Dayyuum Smart Phone!! Not so smart... I'm sooo soooowwrrry (mades frownie face) I would neverrrs and you know that... Now I feel bad my unkie is hurt with me... (Hangs head, pokes out bottom lip and gives you my big brown puppy dog eyes)
...another instance of needing the facebook "like" button. ;)
AnonWell in that case, Round 2 Tonight!!
Hey mate every leg day I am reaching for the bucket. I generaly do either drop sets or rest pause for every muscle group. So on leg day it's leg extensions for pre exhaust with drop sets with partials to absolute failure. Then legpress with dropsets again to absolute failure then onto squats doing the same. If that doesn't make you spew your guts up all over the place then you have been a pussy ;-) All this is done after doing the same thing on hamstrings.
Since I started weight training ,I've only had that happen twice. I guess I'm not pushing myself enough. Or I'm just a pussy! ;-)
Boxing, I was always throwing up.
Haha it's definitely isn't the nicest sensation that's for sure. Just doing straight sets I feel very rarely will be intense enough to make you spew.
Legs! Almost always will make me sick! We decided one day we would superset hacks, extensions, and lunges... By the time I made I was done... I was throwing up! After a little hello to the trash can... We moved on to calves!
Interesting. I actually trained until I puked Wednesday night. Rarely ever happens to me. I was actually a little surprised it happened and chalked it up to old age. Lol.
Good post and good replies.
Other than the very general answer of "it's your body telling you to stop" , does anyone know what exactly is happening or why it's happening? Anyone familiar with sports medicine who has a more concrete answer?
BigBmajA sudden drastic drop in blood sugar will make lots of people puke. Everytime I train legs I'm fighting it back. That's why it's so hard to force down a post workout meal even a shake, I'm usually so nauseous.
I have thrown up a few times training and I don't think it's a bad thing at all.
Wardi77Stress on your central nervous system. when you are under extreme physical duress, your body will choose which systems to work specifically and put less work to the others. your digestive system is one of the first to slow down, so your body will slow it down by ejecting the food out of your system so it can send more resources the other needed systems, such as your cardiovascular / muscular system instead of digesting it. That's why throwing up on heavy squat days is not uncommon, seeing as the legs are the largest muscle group in your body, the most stress is placed there, thus more stress on the CNS. You'll notice that if you rest for 5 or so minutes, your body will return to normal since the stress has been taken off. Over time, your CNS strengthens as you continue to stress it, so if you continue to do this you will feel like puking less and less
+1 for the awesome explanation...I had always heard that the nausea came from lactic acid build up and toxins produced from damaged cells during strenuous activity
I know lactic acid build up is what causes muscle faliure. I used to use this crazy supp called Gakic. It was supposed to increase strength by preventing lactic acid build up. I swear it worked.
It probably did work. Plain ol baking soda actually works but it is not tolerated well by most. Hammer nutrition makes a product or two that reduce lactic acid