The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Lacking today. I think I also had my belt too tight. Idk, took a big bracing breath then unracked and was immediately light headed. Haven't had that much weight sitting directly on my chest in a while.

 

Yeah could be a lot of things, not enough rest between sets, tight belt...but you recognized it and recovered. You are good man

 

It’s something about the brace and then lifting it off the rack. Shit hits sometimes.

 

Yep. Most times I do a smaller breath and unrack, then I take the big brace breath and press. But with 300+ on my chest it's hard to rebreath and brace so I tried to get all the air before unracking.

Oh well, is what it is. I know I can clean and press that on log just fine. Or at least I could before lol haven't touched a log in a while.

 

Front squats, stones, log... all of them can eat a dick. People don’t understand how hard it is to breath with heavy shit on your chest.

Live and learn. I just hate seeing you struggling lately.

 

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Yup, exactly. That shit is what it is. You have a lot of external and internal variables going on rn. I keep a gym journal next to my dated workouts to write: how my session felt, if it was difficult for me or felt weird in any way, how my sleep was the night before, when I ate before, what I ate, how the exercises felt, and sometimes a motivation statement for myself to remember that no matter how I felt during my workout, getting in the gym is better than the alternative. My journal has me consistently underperforming on a lack of sleep and poor eating habits (either not on time or poor nutrition). I think people underperform for a variety of reasons specific to each of us though.

I'm pretty amazed that you kept yourself upright, that's a feat. I've never blacked out in the gym, or anywhere else, from exertion, but if I did i bet my ass would hit the deck and somehow manage to hit everything around me on the way down. The fact that you didnt even look anything but a little wobbly in the video is pretty amazing haha

 

You’ll know it when it’s gonna happen. If you haven’t felt it then you haven’t got close to passing out. Tunnel vision, kinda seeing stars, everything goes quiet and you just feel ‘off’.

You know when it’s coming once it happens to ya lol.

 

Btw, I’m not a heavy lifter, but I’ve tracked down occasional dizzy, tunnel vision, light headed episodes to blood sugar levels. If I eat more than a usual amount of sugar (crap-carbs) I seem to over compensate after a couple hours and blood sugar goes low and then those symptoms happen. Only happens a few times a year, so took me a long while to track it down. If I get that happening, a bit of raw sugar makes it go away, but then it will come back if I keep going. But for me it will happen during cardio.

 

I've passed out multiple times, you are correct, you do know when its coming, but it can be hard to gauge how much time you have to react.

For me, I typically am like "it's cool, I got this, I got this" then when I realize I don't have it, world goes black.

Now that being said, I've not passed out from lifting. After a max DL one time I got a little loopy and laid down, but not a total pass out.

I honestly think @Travish325 just doing a little dip forward and not losing it is just as bad ass as pressing 300lbs lol.

Very happy nothing happened while he was holding anything or fell. Worked out perfect.

 

What is everyone going to do with their second stimulus check?

More gym equipment?

 

Saving. We recently dropped $12K on a new roof for the house so that took us down a lot

 

I had a vasovagal syncope episode a few years ago, passed out twice, after experiencing a bit of pain around my tummy. Thought maybe it was a kidney stone or something. It's ironic that I know what the symptoms of shock, etc are but when it happens, I ignored the signs. Oh, I'm sitting on the toilet so I should be ok. Next thing I knew I woke up on the floor. Then passed out again trying to get to the couch to lay down. I didn't make it... so, my first ride in an ambulance and a few more scars including another on my chin. Oh well. When you start seeing stars, feel like vomiting, feel a flush sweep through your body, etc... lay your ass down...

 

Same thing as the first one, nothing, cuz that’s what I get. But, given why I don’t get one, and the fact that my whole household has maintained employment for the entire time, I cannot complain.

 

Homes, the gift that keeps on givin.

We probably will be saving/investing ours. Although I'm saying that before I've gone home and talked to the other half of the household. I may go home and be told I'm putting in a new tile shower in the master bath. So until I'm told otherwise I'm investing mine.

Words to live by. It's not worth a head injury.

I have anxiety so my body tends to over react to shit. It's odd I can see the worst things happen to other people, like bad bone breaks or horrible lacerations/blood and I'm cool as a cucumber. I cut myself with an apple slicer and oh shit I'm goin down.

Too much money, a good problem to have

 

I think this was a lot of it. I am out of karbolyn and I usually have 75g carbs from it pre to intra workout. Instead that day I had 6 swedish fish pre-workout and then 6 intra shortly before that lift. I never have carbs from sugar, especially for training.

 

I had never passed out but I have gotten dizzy before a press or felt my vision tunnel. I knew as soon as I lifted it... Something ticked and was like "you have 1-2 seconds to rerack this and hold on or you are going to get hurt bad." Like I even noticed as I was going out I looked over to make sure the bar was secure in the rack. I don't remember doing that at all lol

I could not imagine having that weight overhead and starting to black out.... Now that would be terrifying.

 

Well isnt that whats happening in those stone fails? The guys are bracing so hard their brain gets deprived of oxygen and they pass out?

Thats what it looks like.

 

Idk I don't really brace the same way for stones as I do static lifts.

 

Anxiety is a bitch. I'm usually pretty good with seeing blood and injuries on others or myself, but then there are the occasions I start overthinking about certain things and then I feel a bit light-headed and feel like I might pass out if I don't get my mind on something else. Done some of my own piercings, do weekly injections, but sometimes it seems even a papercut might make me feel dizzy. lol

 

Haha well said. It's been needing it for a while, plus we went metal versus shingles due to the back being a very shallow pitch and getting ice dams. One positive to today's world is between me working from home plus not going to concerts, the casino, and other stuff we do we saved up enough to pay cash.

I've had the weight overhead (bench press) and had my cat jump on my chest and headbutt my face. Scared the fuck outta me.