Thread: Light headed from Squats

If you are looking down while doing squats, that will do it. Or maybe the bar is putting pressure on a nerve.

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If you build it they will come

Dont hold your breath. In with good out with the bad!!!

you proably arn't eatin right, if i go to the gym in the evening around 5-6 before dinner i get dizzy when i do alot of stuff. But now i work out around 2 so I still have lunch energy. Try eating some peanut butter toast or something.. mmm, if ur not concerend with the fat amount

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get bigger, stronger, faster

This is common after an intense leg work-out. Some sugar might help!

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Just because the majority believes it, does not make it true!

True!

I've got hypoglycemia, (that's low blood sugar for the simple folk) My body puts out too much insulin during intense activity, (or if I eat candy) which makes me light-headed and sometimes givs me the shakes.

Try eating a light high-carb snack before your workout, so you've got some solid fuel to burn. Keep it light, though so your body's focused on lifting, not digesting.

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Never get pulled over with a baggie of whey protein on the passenger seat...

That happens to me sometimes, but ONLY when I do squats followed by deadlifts. The combination of the two exercises just kicks my ass. I've found that a sports drink helps (although some people might cringe at that). You know what else helps? Vomiting. (kidding about the vomiting)

The vomiting.....Done that!!!

Yeah, I was also thinkin your working out on an empty stomic, happens to me sometimes only on legs or doing deadlifts.

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Just another day in the gutter

I really get light headed sometimes coming off the lying leg curl machine. Plus when sniffing glue.

I was talking to our good buddy Cackerot last night on Chat and he figured your problem is due to lack of Oxygen due to the demands of squatting, he cut and Pasted (like only Cack can cut and paste lol) all kinds of info on it and had me convinced anyway.

I asked him why I don't seem to have that problem anymore and basically he told me it was because my muscles have become accustom to lifting more and use less oxygen to do it, therefore no more disyness, made since.

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Just another day in the gutter