Last night at the gym I wanted to do 3 sets of 20 reps on leg press with 5 plates per side, nothing new done this before, on my second set at my 19th rep I felt blood rush to the top of my head from the back of my neck and caught an instant head rush headache and became very dizzy.
After several minutes the pain went away and I felt somewhat normal and continued my workout, did not do my last set of 20 reps but went on to do leg curls, reverse leg curls and machine leg press and felt OK, but not entirely myself.
This morning I still feel a slight headache but not too bad, anyone ever felt anything like this?
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05-11-2021, 06:13 AM #1
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Extremely blood rush to the head and dizziness
Last edited by bodyhard; 05-11-2021 at 07:38 AM.
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05-11-2021, 08:19 AM #7
yeah, guess (but that's all it is) is that you're pushing pretty hard and it's still not that far out from COVID compromising your overall health. Go easy, ensure you get enough rest. You're doing well! If it recurs I agree I'd at least call your doc.
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05-11-2021, 08:24 AM #8
It’s called vasovagal syncope. Sounds like you were pre-syncope, meaning you didn’t out right pass out. This is due to compression in the intraabdominal area on your 10th cranial nerve as it courses down to your peritoneum. Some people are more susceptible to this.
Your best bet is to stop holding your ****ing breath when you’re doing reps just like someone was supposed to teach you when you first started lifting heavy weights. If it keeps happening have your family physician take a look, but he’ll likely say the same thing I did.You have my word as a Schons.
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05-11-2021, 09:00 AM #9
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05-11-2021, 09:18 AM #10
So if we assume your breathing was 100%, then the only question is what cuts off blood flow to the head and leaves you dizzy after exertion? 20 reps of anything is no joke!
Tensing your neck and crazy high bp, a mask, residual covid junk in your lungs?
I think we all have pushed to that point but it just goes away and we don't wake up with it the day after.There is an unspoken thing, we are iron brothers and sisters, we are to support each other and...It is our duty to support our brothers and sisters in the iron game!
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05-11-2021, 09:35 AM #13
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Since I always record my workouts I have the two videos
Here is my first set of 20, I crop this one so you don't see the set up and everything.
Here is the 2nd set where I could not complete the whole set only got 19 - I didn't crop this one so you can see how I hold the back of my head when I felt the pain.
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05-11-2021, 09:38 AM #14
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05-11-2021, 10:42 AM #18
Ok I could hear you breathing so you weren't holding your breath. Unless you did it for a couple reps without realizing. Hard to say what happened at this point then.
I did a quick web search and found this. It might be what you experienced.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/4...n-working-out/
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05-11-2021, 12:26 PM #21
It is the fkng mask!!
I get headaches every time i leave the gym now because of the lack of O2 and that never ever happened before.
I have tried to do what i normally do( workouts) but the feeling of being smothered, the inability to breath deeply and the feeling of "sucking wind" upon completion of the set has caused me to modify everything the past 15 months.
I am 90% confident that in my case, it is all due to this.Last edited by x-trainer ben; 05-11-2021 at 04:09 PM.
There is an unspoken thing, we are iron brothers and sisters, we are to support each other and...It is our duty to support our brothers and sisters in the iron game!
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05-11-2021, 12:38 PM #22
That wasn’t meant to be political really. I figured since you laughed at his findings (doubt you had a stroke). I thought he was BSing and you was ok with it and added my own BS because Google and Microsoft and all.......
Anyway my common sense thinks those masks are doing bad things but professor Gabber say otherwise?
I’ve had headaches the next day from 20 rep squat from raising my head, but never dizzy, the masks will cause dizziness cause you ain’t getting proper air.......
And unfortunately masks seem to be political BS, it sucks, it really does, if I had kids, I’d most likely go on a rampage if they was forced to wear them in gym or sports, it is utter stupidity!!!!
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05-11-2021, 01:32 PM #23
I actually just started back at my gym and wearing the mask absolutely sucks. The girl working the desk told me I can pull it down under my nose but not under my chin. lol That's what I do while I'm doing a set or sitting between sets. If I get up to walk I just pull it back over my nose.
This silly chit has got to end already.
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05-11-2021, 01:34 PM #24
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05-11-2021, 05:10 PM #29
I seldom have my mask on any where where it's covering my nose and especially in the gym...
I think we're getting closer and closer to the point where masks are becoming sort of a token gesture in more and more places...
At 6 am there's next to no staff around anyways, so it's not a big deal or at least not as big of deal as I thought it was gonna be..
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05-11-2021, 06:07 PM #30
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