The Official Workout Thread

[Rjinn]

Originally Posted by tore

I hit the gym a couple of times a week and last time, which was yesterday, it didn't really feel like a good day at all during warmup, but I'm not a quitter, so I kept at it. I always do sit-ups and yesterday, I also worked on my triceps and back muscles. However, midway through my excercise, I started feeling quite nauseous. That's happened before, but not quite as bad as yesterday. I thought I was going to throw up and felt dizzy for quite a while after I was done.

Any tips on how I can avoid such nausea in the future?

Do you eat right before you workout?

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by Rjinnx

Do you eat right before you workout?

Normally I don't, but yesterday I had a banana some 10-15 minutes before.

[Rjinn]

My personal trainer and the fitness books she gave me recommended you eat at least half an hour before, to sustain energy and oxygen. Any later and the body hasn't had time to digest properly which may be causing the nausea. Previous light headedness.

Try that and see if it gets any better.

[Guybrush]

I'll try that and see if also cutting down on drinking water helps. And perhaps take longer breaks between the sets. As I mentioned, I didn't feel too good even during warmup so it was probably a bad day on top of everything else.

[Dr_Rez]

Originally Posted by Rjinnx

My personal trainer and the fitness books she gave me recommended you eat at least half an hour before, to sustain energy and oxygen. Any later and the body hasn't had time to digest properly which may be causing the nausea. Previous light headedness.

Try that and see if it gets any better.

Ill bet she is sexy. To bad you are married tho correct?

[FETCHER.]

I'm pretty much learning about everything to do with personal training (resistance training and free weights) in one unit in college. I've already learned which order machine weights should be done in. (using a machine that works more than one joint to begin with, I can't remember the reasoning but I'll find out). I'm pretty excited because I wasn't expecting as much detail and I'll hopefully tone up loads in that unit. Since losing weight I feel like a ****ing rockstar but I need to tone up badly.

[Guybrush]

There's an order you should hit the machines in? I've no idea about any such stuff. I just generally get in there (whatever it is) and try to get 10-15 reps until I can't lift or push anymore and do that 3 times for every machine I work on that particular day. And then I add sit ups to that. It seems to be working.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by tore

There's an order you should hit the machines in? I've no idea about any such stuff. I just generally get in there (whatever it is) and try to get 10-15 reps until I can't lift or push anymore and do that 3 times for every machine I work on that particular day. And then I add sit ups to that. It seems to be working.

I've always heard you're supposed to go from large muscle groups to small. For example, you'd do the press bench and pull down machines before you'd get on the curl and triceps extension machines. I believe the idea is that it helps you get more benefit out of the exercises that work more muscles.

[FETCHER.]

Originally Posted by tore

There's an order you should hit the machines in? I've no idea about any such stuff. I just generally get in there (whatever it is) and try to get 10-15 reps until I can't lift or push anymore and do that 3 times for every machine I work on that particular day. And then I add sit ups to that. It seems to be working.

Yeah thats pretty much what I do. I was told it's more beneficial for some reason. I'm going to need to ask, its bugging me.

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I've always heard you're supposed to go from large muscle groups to small. For example, you'd do the press bench and pull down machines before you'd get on the curl and triceps extension machines. I believe the idea is that it helps you get more benefit out of the exercises that work more muscles.

Hm, could be .. I'll keep that in mind. Up to now, I've tried to do rotations where I go from exercise to exercise. For example sit ups to push ups to one machine and then another and then I do that rotation three times. The benefit, I feel, is that as I exercise a different muscle group with each exercise, I can relax those muscles just a little before I hit the next set of repetitions.

I'm not sure if that's what you're supposed to do to get maximum benefit from your training as I only work out at a small gym at work and there's hardly anyone else there and never someone who really knows anything about this stuff. Perhaps it's better to just do one exercise at a time until you're done with it instead of rotating? I'll take any advice I can get!