Caution - danger! Hungry woman in the gym!

In spring, gyms exude an amazing aroma ... Unfortunately, this is not the aroma of birch earrings and sticky poplar leaves. The spring fitness club smells pungent ... ammonia! A rare day is complete without the next hungry virgin falling into my arms, turning pale and rolling my eyes. And well, if in an embrace! Dumping off treadmills, plopping backward from step platforms, recounting battery sections, disconnecting on jumping. Until now, before my eyes, a terrible girl fainted during a squat with a heavy barbell.

Colleagues from the section of water programs talked about the terrible case of fainting in water aerobics - only the woman's belt and the attention of the teacher saved the woman. A couple of years ago, in the locker room, a fragile client, having lost consciousness, neatly “fit” into the clothes drawer and, unnoticed by anyone, came to herself a few minutes later. The chilling cry of a alive buried man made the entire staff of the fitness center shudder.

Stunning sugar

Of course, cases of lightheadedness, loss of orientation and clouding of consciousness occur at any time of the year, but a spring-like epileptic illness is a special case. The passion of Russian ladies to experience all the difficulties at once - both a low-calorie diet and exhausting physical exertion - this is the main reason for the spring nightmares of trainers and teachers. As a rule, trouble catches up with extremely losing weight on the 4th day of the feat. At this time, muscle glycogen stores are depleted, and the level of glucose in the blood drops to, to put it mildly, values ​​that are uncomfortable for the body.

We are not talking about true hypoglycemia, the reality is that we are all “sugar addicts” and are used to high blood glucose levels. Therefore, its values ​​on the lower boundary of the norm, the body perceives hard and is sometimes able to turn off consciousness. At risk are not only trivially starving, but also fans of the Kremlin’s diets, Ducans, Atkins and other protein diets. The low levels of starch and sugar in these diet programs cause carbohydrate depletion. And this, after a few days of diet, will lead to lightheadedness, nausea, visual impairment, loss of coordination and other “life charms”.

In the future, if the stubborn maiden is still alive and still doomedly crawling around the gym, she will not face fainting for some time. Metabolism is rebuilt, the body will create carbohydrates from protein and fat. There will be the so-called ketoacidosis, an alarming condition, but not as dangerous as hitting your head on a block simulator when falling from a treadmill.

Forewarned is forearmed. Ways to prevent fainting

For young and fashionable

To protect themselves, lovers of chicken breast without bread recommend getting a glucometer - a cheap and compact device for measuring blood sugar. The first four days of the diet, control glucose. If the indicators are low - 3.5-4.2 mmol / l, I beg you, do not go to the gym, metal around, sharp corners. Point your cotton legs to yoga or Pilates, there soft rugs, foam bolsters, bricks and those foam - it's a pleasure to fall.

For experienced and economical

If you spend 2 thousand rubles on an advanced gadget, a toad strangles, look for a tonometer in the pharmacy annals - a device for measuring pressure. Do a simple test:

1. measure the pressure at rest while sitting (for example, you get 120/80 mmHg);
2. do 20 squats at a fast pace and measure again while sitting.

Check the results.

• If the upper (systolic) pressure rises, and the lower drops slightly, for example, 140–75 mmHg. Art., then, perhaps, the wealthy moles should take a closer look at you - you are an ideal little inch - which is a day without food, but still in excellent physical shape.
• In the event of a decrease in systolic or both values, know that today is not your day! Stay away from springy sneakers - jumpers, swinging platforms and functional loops, trampolines and other fitness rides. Better in the old fashion, lying on a bench, shake the press. Or maybe, well, this is his fitness, let a couple of cups of herbal tea in your phytobar and go home.

All other options:

• both systolic and diastolic rose;
• diastolic pressure is not determined at all, the device gives an error;
• both pressures rose too high

mean only one thing for you - you definitely have health problems, only they are unlikely to be related to diet and fitness. Most likely, repeated measurements and a doctor's consultation will be required. The load, as in the first case, will have to be reduced.

For those “who are a thousand years old and he crawled out of the darkness”

Rarely, but in our time it happens - at home and in the fitness club there is neither a glucometer, nor a tonometer. Inhabitants of such places, forgotten by civilization, can only rely on the “maybe” and sports isotonic drink, which was created to quickly saturate the blood with glucose and sodium. Although in those parts where a tonometer has not been seen, the isotonic is also marvelous. In this case, buy a bottle of glucose solution and a bottle of saline in the pharmacy, mix these liquids and drink the resulting cocktail if you feel lightheaded.

Be sure to keep in your pocket folk sports dope - "cotton wool moistened with ammonia." Ammonia vapors irritate the nasal mucosa receptors, thereby stimulating the respiratory center - breathing quickens, pressure rises and you are back in action! If the pungent smell of ammonia in your pocket confuses and discourages friends and fans, replace it with tea tree aromatic oil - the effect is the same, but it smells nicer. Have peppermint or ginger sweets in your gym bag, chewing them well will bring you back to normal with low blood sugar. But remember that your idol Pierre Ducane would not approve of such a stash.

In fact, it would be more correct not to give any advice, but to strictly shake one’s finger and remind the newly-born “fitness ascetics” that even Hercules performed feats in order of priority: he fought with lions, cleaned stables, chased after a wild boar and only then went for apples of immortality and youth. And in your case it’s wiser to first “get in shape”, and only then experiment with nutrition. But, it seems to me, the arguments of reason will melt as usual, like the last icicles on the roof. And still hundreds of fitness club instructors will wake up in a cold sweat from the inhuman yelling of a spring-slimming victim ringing in her ears, waking up from a swoon in a cramped cupboard for sportswear.