Why You Feel Dizzy During Or After Exercise

All exercise can bring an opportunity to feel lightheaded; there are some general reasons that aren’t specific to a training method but instead any form of exercise. These include:

How Dehydration Can Make You Feel Dizzy

Explanation: Dehydration is the process of losing more water than you’re consuming, creating a net loss in water within your body. Any form of exercise will raise your body temperate, and its natural response is to cool itself through sweating, which is 90% water. You can recognize dehydration as you may also:

1. Have dry lips, mouth, and eyes.
2. Urinate less than four times a day.
3. Feel tied.
4. Incur headaches.

How To Manage and Prevent Dehydration: Drink more water! While this may seem simple, lots of individuals forget.

You can remind yourself through techniques such as: 

1. Keep a water bottle beside you at all times.
2. Water reminding apps.
3. Scheduling water breaks during a workout.

How Low Body Sugar Can Make You Feel Lightheaded

Explanation: Body cells need glucose (sugar) during respiration to produce energy. When exercising, the demand for energy increases, leading to an increase in the demand for glucose.

Initially, your body uses the glucose supply floating in the bloodstream. However, this is only a short-term solution. Once depleted, your body uses its glucose reserves to sustain activity. 

If this isn’t replenished, you may feel lightheaded and:

1. Nervous or confused.
2. Fatigued.
3. Sweaty.
4. Trembling.

How To Manage Low Body Sugar: To manage your symptoms, you must restore glucose by eating a small sugary snack; fruit is normally best.  

How To Prevent Low Body Sugar: To prevent this from happening in the future, be conscious of your glucose reserves. Foods high in carbohydrates or lean protein will supply your body with sufficient glucose to exercise. However, try limiting foods that spike and drop your glucose levels, such as sweets, chocolate, and cookies. While they don’t have to be completely avoided, eating too much can have serious health effects like weight gain, stained teeth, and high cholesterol levels. 

How Low Blood Pressure Can Make You Feel Lightheaded

Explanation: Blood pressure fluctuates throughout the day, though it is often at its lowest during the night or 45 minutes after a workout.

During a workout, blood pressure heightens, pushing the flow of oxygenated blood cells throughout the body – supplying the muscles and heart with oxygen.

When you immediately stop exercising, your heart rate returns to its normal pace; however, the blood vessels are slower at returning to rest. This brief moment out of sync results in insufficient oxygenated blood flowing to your brain.

When your brain doesn’t get enough oxygen, you will start to feel dizzy as well as:

1. Confused.
2. Clammy skin.
3. Pallor skin.
4. Fainting.
5. Weak and rapid pulse.

How To Manage Low Blood Pressure: To manage someone experiencing low blood pressure, tell them to sit down, putting their head in between their knees to encourage oxygenated blood to the brain. 

How To Prevent Low Blood Pressure: To prevent this from happening, always cool down after exercise. This allows your body to slow down gradually and return to a normal rate.

Some other useful tips include:

1. Staying hydrated.
2. Getting up slow and steady.
3. Wear compression stockings or gloves.

However, it isn’t always possible to prevent blood pressure drops, in which case, talk to your doctor and test your blood pressure which they can direct you the best way to move forward.

How Not Breathing Correctly Can Make You Dizzy During Exercise

Explanation: Holding your breath under tension or strain, breathing too fast, or breathing too little can all make you feel dizzy.

When exercising, your body uses oxygen to create energy; your breathing rate should increase to help aid this. However, doing any of the above limits air intake and reduces the amount of oxygen your body receives. 

If your brain isn’t fed enough oxygen, you can start to feel dizzy and lightheaded. You may also experience:

1. Dry lips, eyes, and mouth.
2. Face turning red.
3. Fainting.

How To Manage Not Breathing Correctly: To manage this, remove any clothing that could restrict breathing, gently take a seat on the floor and sit up straight. Take three slow and deep breaths to calm yourself and control your breathing. If you feel this isn’t helping, call emergency services.

Else repeat this for the next five minutes before slowly getting back on your feet. 

How To Prevent Not Breathing Correctly: To prevent this in the future, be conscious of your breath. Also, have deep, slow breathes during rest in between workouts.

How Overexerting Yourself Can Cause Dizziness

Explanation: Overexerting yourself happens for numerous reasons, but they all start with pushing your body past its limits. Examples include:

1. Training for too long.
2. Exercising too intense.
3. Lifting too heavy.

The above, and many other reasons, can make you feel dizzy through dehydration, blood pressure, and shortness of breath.

Lots of individuals overexercise, and there tends to be a variety of reasons why they push their bodies above limits. Some reasons are: 

1. Lack of experience.
2. Coming back from an injury.
3. Too competitive.

How To Manage Overexerting: To manage the lightheaded feeling, take a break and have a moment to yourself. Try to cool down, hydrate yourself and control your breathing rate. Taking yourself out of the situation is the best thing you can do.

How To Prevent Overexerting Yourself: To prevent this from happening in the future, learn to recognize your body’s limit and listen when it wants you to stop. Once your body is being pushed too hard, stop.

This will come with experience, but to be on the safe side, take your next workouts down a few levels.

How Warm-Ups And Cool-Downs Avoid Dizziness In Calisthenics

A common reason for feeling lightheaded is a sudden start or stop to exercise.

This immediate change can cause an unexpected jump in heart rate, a sudden rush of blood, and an unexpected increase in breathing rate, all of which can make you feel lightheaded.

A warm-up allows a gradual rise in heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate, which prepares your body for the upcoming session.

The same also applies to a cool down, but instead of gradually increasing the above, it will decrease it.

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