Should i up my sodium content?

Get_Swole · Mar 16, 2010

Yesterday i was about to rake back on bench with db's and i started seeing stars. Little gold spots kinda flying around. I was already halfway back so just continued with my set hoping i wasnt going to pass out although nothing felt weird at all just the spots. Once i was done and racked the db's it went away an hasnt been back. Ive had it happen a few times before just wondering what the cause was. My water intake is 1.5 to 2 gallons depending on training days. Sodium intake is just over 2g's a day. Ive heard it could have to do with low bp but its usually pretty solid. Also electrolyte imbalance.
I take a multi everyday and the no salt i use on my food has 600ish mg's of potassium per serving. What are the causes of this anyone know something else i should be changing up?

jrtlover · Mar 16, 2010

Get_Swole said:
Yesterday i was about to rake back on bench with db's and i started seeing stars. Little gold spots kinda flying around. I was already halfway back so just continued with my set hoping i wasnt going to pass out although nothing felt weird at all just the spots. Once i was done and racked the db's it went away an hasnt been back. Ive had it happen a few times before just wondering what the cause was. My water intake is 1.5 to 2 gallons depending on training days. Sodium intake is just over 2g's a day. Ive heard it could have to do with low bp but its usually pretty solid. Also electrolyte imbalance.
I take a multi everyday and the no salt i use on my food has 600ish mg's of potassium per serving. What are the causes of this anyone know something else i should be changing up?

Sounds like low blood sugar, I get it all the time when I lift heavy, especially legs. It's not low sodium. You'd have other symptoms if you had low sodium. Lethargy, depression, aggravation. Maybe have something with a few carbs in it before you lift heavy or take some fast acting carbs, just a few, right after you feel that way. Your water intake is perfect, your electrolytes are just fine.
(yes I should have gone to medical school but my sister beat me to it)

Get_Swole · Mar 16, 2010

I get hypoglycemic at times and can pretty much know when i start to run out of carbs this is why i kinda ruled it out. I have over 75 g's of carbs in the morning and work out at noon 3 rice cakes about 30 minutes prior to workout. I guess it could be but they dont persist this is why i ruled out hypo, it never goes away unless i consume more carbs, glucose etc. this on the other hand just happens once and then goes away on its own.

saudades · Mar 16, 2010

It isn't always necessarily a hypo moment. Sometimes when you do a heavy lift, the blood is drawn momentarily away from the brain, causing what looks like a hypoglycemic symptom. The difference between the two is that when it is just from exertion, you return back to normal, and a hypoglycemic episode continues on. You describe the former so you're just getting the blood away from the head for a second.

jrtlover · Mar 16, 2010

saudades said:
It isn't always necessarily a hypo moment. Sometimes when you do a heavy lift, the blood is drawn momentarily away from the brain, causing what looks like a hypoglycemic symptom. The difference between the two is that when it is just from exertion, you return back to normal, and a hypoglycemic episode continues on. You describe the former so you're just getting the blood away from the head for a second.

True, it's a form of truncting. Like if you did a bench press all the blood goes to your chest, then immediately follow with a squat, the blood has to go to the legs. The heart has to work especially hard when you're doing this type of work out, which is normally a "functional" or sports specific work out. But that's truncting.

Should i up my sodium content?

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