Hi,
My husband and I joined a gym about a
month ago. We go 3 days a weeks and see a
trainer 2 of the 3. I love going but my
husband is having some problems. Twice
he's thrown up, and just about every other
time he's had to stop due to nausea or
light headedness. Other symptoms include
yawns, paleness and dizziness. Twice now
he's skipped the over the head machines
and he was fine, but yesturday he only did
legs and slight abs and had to stop. He
feels bad about it because he wants to be
able to do it. He's 6' tall and 170lbs.
He used to run, but has never done any
weights before. Any ideas?
Thanks
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MMAFighter
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Posted: 05-10-08 20:20pm
Weight-lifting for the first time could
definitely be the cause of
dizziness/paleness. Try doing body weight
exercises (try to get him to work up to 25
pushups without stopping, 5 pullups, and
do some ab stuff, it couldn't hurt) and
light dumbbell exercises (bicep curls,
tricep curls, military presses, wrist
curls with dumbbells under 30 lbs) for a
while just to get a feel of muscular
exertion before moving back onto the
weights. Also, does ur husband not
breathe in when lowering a weight and
breathe out when pushing/pulling the
weight? If so, holding his breath could
be causing the dizziness
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Mikolas
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Posted: 05-11-08 02:03am
Does he have any conditions we should know
about? Diabetes, anemia, anything? Would
you say his diet is well rounded?
Imbalance of proper nutritioning could
lead to the problems you specified.
For the moment he needs to take it very
slow and easy obviously, he needs to find
his own limit, understanding what is too
much and what is too little. Don't have
him set goals like "I'll do this 30 times
and then rest" or "I'll do this much
weight", it will probably lead to
overexertion and cause those exercise
induced nausea. Whatever he can do where
he feels like he got a bit accomplished,
but not deadbeat on the floor because he
did one too many sets and throwing up.
What are your trainers saying?
And yes, you should probably check to see
if he is holding his breath, it is a bad
habit that could lead to feeling
lightheaded and possible blood vessel
ruptures.
