Exercise NAUSEA, HELP!

Uh oh.

My first instinct, overwhelmingly, is that you need to eat more :-x

Make sure you have something, as specified above, high in protein at least two hours to 30 minutes before working out (no less than an hour before plyo, though, or that will actually make you feel sick from all the jumping).

This is crazy important with a program as intense as P90X. Stay fed, girl!

Same thing use to happen to me too. I have a protein shake with 1/2 banana before my workout. Good luck.

Wow, I always thought that eating would make it worse!
I figured, on an empty stomach, there is no room for nausea or indigestion.

Definitely food for thought, I will try this out!

p.s. staying hydrated all day has helped a great deal, instead of gorging on two bottles of water during exercise.

Hehe, nononono! Staying hydrated is definitely most important (the times I've tried to push through a workout without having enough water earlier, I felt like I was dying rather than just a little nauseated), but having eaten enough is super important especially during very intense workouts which I know you're doing. On an empty stomach, your body will be DYING for some carb/sugar/protein stores to tap into and convert to energy and when it can't find them, it's gonna make you feel very uncomfortable as a way of saying "FEED ME!!!"

edit: Just remember, for VERY intense cardio like Plyometrics, eating too soon before can work against you just based on the sheer madness of the motion you'll be performing (same principle as "don't eat 30 minutes before you go in the pool"). Tony would say have something substantial 1-2 hours before you bring it.

Why would that sound gross? Chocolate milk is delicioso

Wow, I always thought that eating would make it worse!
I figured, on an empty stomach, there is no room for nausea or indigestion.

Definitely food for thought, I will try this out!

p.s. staying hydrated all day has helped a great deal, instead of gorging on two bottles of water during exercise.

not eating will make it worse! you have no calories to burn off!

Add me to the "you probably need a snack" list. I used to run, and now I bicycle (sometimes for hours at a stretch). I also hike and kayak. With ANY of those activities, I need to start with a small but proper snack (for me what works is complex carbs, minimum of 100 calories, ideally about a half hour beforehand).

I've been told by the sports nutritionist who is directing our training for the Trek Across Maine (60-mile-a-day bike ride for 3 days) that a 100-200 calorie complex carb snack every hour of intense workouts is also ideal, and a carb-and-protein snack within about a half hour of the workout helps keep nausea and chills at bay and keeps your appetite healthy. I haven't found that to be necessarily true in my case, but I have used hard candy to "restart the engine" on long hikes - a slow sugar drip of 15 calories over the course of 15-20 minutes can keep me going for a couple of hours of heavy activity.

And, of course, immediately before exercise or during exercise is the wrong time to START hydrating. You need to start hydrating early (or just keep up a good habit of drinking lots of water daily).

If I don't fuel up properly before I start a long and vigorous workout, I get nauseous, and then when I'm done I can't have a snack because I'll hurl it back up again. Then I go through the chills. They suck. Then when my body has recovered from what I've done to it, I'm a ravenous hungerbeast and I empty entire refrigerators into my gaping maw. It's important that you move a lot when I'm in this mode, because you're made of meat and I'm not fussy. Just sayin'.

A 100-calorie slice of multigrain bread before my bicycle commute and a 1/2 cup of oatmeal and a handful of nuts and a banana after it means I've burned 700+ calories and consumed an under-300 calorie breakfast, and when lunchtime rolls around I'm feeling "healthy hungry".

I've tried NOT having that slice of bread beforehand - feeling ill until 10AM, then a sudden rush to the cafeteria dropping $10 on 1,000+ calories of poorly-chosen fare, and hungry again at lunch. It doesn't work for me.

But we're all different. I'd try something very simple and easy to digest, even if it's a handful of crackers with a touch of peanut butter, about a half hour before your workout.

Wow, I always thought that eating would make it worse!
I figured, on an empty stomach, there is no room for nausea or indigestion.

Definitely food for thought, I will try this out!

p.s. staying hydrated all day has helped a great deal, instead of gorging on two bottles of water during exercise.

Hehe, nononono! Staying hydrated is definitely most important (the times I've tried to push through a workout without having enough water earlier, I felt like I was dying rather than just a little nauseated), but having eaten enough is super important especially during very intense workouts which I know you're doing. On an empty stomach, your body will be DYING for some carb/sugar/protein stores to tap into and convert to energy and when it can't find them, it's gonna make you feel very uncomfortable as a way of saying "FEED ME!!!"

edit: Just remember, for VERY intense cardio like Plyometrics, eating too soon before can work against you just based on the sheer madness of the motion you'll be performing (same principle as "don't eat 30 minutes before you go in the pool"). Tony would say have something substantial 1-2 hours before you bring it.

This! Don't eat any later than thirty minutes before, and it doesn't have to be a large QUANTITY of food. Just find something that is calorie and nutrient dense so that you don't have to eat a large portion, but your body will still have something to draw energy from. I used to have a problem with muscle weakness and fatigue (not so much nausea) until I started doing this.

I found that too when I started 30 Day Shred. Eating something about an hour before has really made a difference. It does get better as you get fitter too! Good luck in finding what works for you x:flowerforyou:

I have exercise hiccups!

Brilliant!!! :laugh: You poor thing!! Perhaps you're not breathing right???

How hard do you exercise? Nausea can be perfectly normal after a long bout of high intensity exercise. Try backing off the intensity a bit and see if that helps. Chronic cardio isn't good for the body anyway and will do more for eating away at muscle mass than fat mass.

And food is up to you. Some people like to exercise with food in the belly (I don't advise this if you are going to be doing high intensity cardio for more than a half hour because high intensity exercise stresses the body and your digestive system will shut down). Some like to exercise fasted. Some like to eat after, some don't. See what your body likes best.

I prefer not to eat right before or right after exercise. I think it defeats the purpose of using exercise to burn carbs/fat from storage. Think about it. If you eat before (takes about 2-3 hours for food to leave the stomach and about 5-6 hours for the digestion process to complete) then your body will be using what you just ate as fuel. If you eat after then your body will use what you just ate to replenish. With no food in your system your body will have no choice but to USE WHAT IS ALREADY THERE.