Hi,
I just did muscle endurance video last night, and boy, right after the workout, I was feeling weak, shakey and over fatigued. I even pre-medicated myself with Motrin 600 mg and 1 Excedrin (asprin, tylenol, caffeine combo) because I have gotten this way in the past with the total body workouts. I went really light on the weights because I know my limits from doing this in the past and the other total body weight videos. (Muscle max, body max etc.) I drank crystal light throughout the workout, afterwards I thought maybe I was just a little hypoglycemic-so I ate a 100 calorie pack chex mix ("good carbs"), then I didn't feel any better, so I ate 2 bowls of cereal. Then I was nauseas. It was bedtime anyway, so I rubbed on some ben gay on my muscles took extra strenght tylenol and my husbands multi-vitamin-(Maybe low potassium?). I told my husband about it the next day. I am like, certainly there has to be something you can take in prior to the work-out that they sell at GNC or something. He told me about vitamin B-12- but I am a nurse and know that vitamin B-12 has to be taken as a shot-the GI tract does not have the intrinisic factor to break it down. I can't believe they even sell an oral form of vitamin B12, but there has to be something out there that you can take before the workout to prevent this.
I have a strong understanding of lactic acidosis. I am a prior navy nurse as well. I helped with gathering data on research on marines and exercise tolerance/endurance and also literature reviews on exercise physiology. I read an article on sweat analysis of males and females and it concluded that males lose more sodium in sweat whereas females tend to lose more potassium. I also worked in Quantico with the marines and we also noted that males were more likely to suffer from heat exhaustion than females.
Maybe I'll drink gatorade and eat a banana and take a multi-vitamin before my next total body workout. I don't know if you can buy straight potassium pills.-Too much potassium can effect the heart in a negative way as well.
Any other suggestions?
I love doing the total body workouts. Like I said, I try to go light on the weights. But if I'm going to feel this bad after them, it's not worth it. I didn't feel that bad during the workout and didn't think I was overdoing it. When we got to the abs section at the end, I was really modifying it. My current rotation is:Cardio, Total body, Cardio, upper body, cardio, lower body, cardio and weights. But maybe I should do more of the cardio and weights ones. Maybe after this rotation, I'll do that.
