why am i getting KILLING headaches when working out

[mark1993]

Last Friday I was doing my usual Leg workout. I was on my last set on the leg press machine where I added 50kg to each side for the first time. I completed about 12 reps and then straight after I got a killing head ache which lasted for about a minute leaving me with my hands on the side of my head until the pain slowly went leaving me feeling slight traces of pain.
I Thought the pain was just there either because I was breathing out more oxygen than I had taken in or that I was dehydrated.

Today i was doing my back work out and i was warming up with pull ups (after my 6min treadmill warm up).
On my last set again i could only manage to do 8 out of 10 reps because the pain came back. It caused me to put my hands on my head and to walk around until the pain went.

I have been working out for more than a year, generally healthy, never had this problem before and almost 18.

Also, Is this a serious matter?
have any of you experienced this?

[kbpoetree]

hmmmm do u have any neck aches badly b4 the headaches? u wear anything on ur head like a hat/bandana or anything??? u sure ur drinking enough water??

[mark1993]

hmmmm do u have any neck aches badly b4 the headaches? u wear anything on ur head like a hat/bandana or anything??? u sure ur drinking enough water??

nope no neck aches and I havent been wearing anything on my head.
mm well I had coffee before i left my house and had a sip of water from the fountain before i started my workout.

[kbpoetree]

nope no neck aches and I havent been wearing anything on my head.
mm well I had coffee before i left my house and had a sip of water from the fountain before i started my workout.

try drinken way more water..and hmm if ur doin the leg presses where ur basicly layen down and ur legs are up in air..that could def be causing more blood to rush quickly to your head. and as far as back workout...what exact lifting motion were u doin when got the headache..could be as simple as too much blood rushen...and ur body will just end up getten used to it and wont rush as bad..then again it could be more serious

[mark1993]

try drinken way more water..and hmm if ur doin the leg presses where ur basicly layen down and ur legs are up in air..that could def be causing more blood to rush quickly to your head. and as far as back workout...what exact lifting motion were u doin when got the headache..could be as simple as too much blood rushen...and ur body will just end up getten used to it and wont rush as bad..then again it could be more serious

yeah its the incline leg press. But i havent had any problems with doing that in the past.
For the back workout i was just doing normal pull ups to work the trapz. up and down motion.

[kbpoetree]

yeah its the incline leg press. But i havent had any problems with doing that in the past.
For the back workout i was just doing normal pull ups to work the trapz. up and down motion.

got ya..well u did say u added more weight than normal..but that shouldnt have been cause..and hmm u did say you've been worken out a while so if you werent breathing right i'd think you wouldve had this prob b4...b4 runnen to DR i'd give it a few more times make sure somehow it wasnt diet or allergies or somthan..but if it keeps on and gets worse i'd have it checked out..till then no worries

[mark1993]

thanks. ill see how it goes

[kbpoetree]

thanks. ill see how it goes

no prob..but def start drinken more water and haven some with you while ur worken out

[New England]

nope no neck aches and I havent been wearing anything on my head.
mm well I had coffee before i left my house and had a sip of water from the fountain before i started my workout.

if you are working out regularly you should be drinking 6-10 big glasses of water each day.


when i was into weightlifting i used to drink about a gallon and a half including what i mixed into my supplements and shakes (i was not and have never been a small man, so you might be ok with a bit less than a gallon. no gatoraide. no juice. not soda. water. drink lots and lots of water)



my guess would be that you are dehydrated. that's usually the most common cause of headaches in athletes.

don't drink coffee either before a workout, if at all possible.
especially if you take pre-workout supplements (most of them contain gobs of caffeine anyway. if you see the word guarana on a product that means there's serious caffeine in there)


its amazing how little water gets consumed by young people these days
a bottle of gatoraide has almost as much sugar as a bottle of soda.
lots of salt in there too. tons of salt, actually. if you concentrate you can actually taste it when you drink the stuff.


if you are an athlete or want to be fit like one you should be drinking amounts of water that will probably seem ridiculous to you at first. but they shouldn't. it's only natural to drink lots of water when you are very active.



water is THE key ingredient for building muscle. your muscles are more water than they are anything else.
you break muscles down and fill them with blood when you work out.

they get fed all that good stuff you're eating from the increased blood flow they will be experiencing for the rest of the day and also during your pump when you are lifting. and when they are sore your blood flowing through them will feed them and help them to recover.
all of these processes are based on the flow of blood and water


so yeah, young man
drink up on that dihydrogen monoxide

AKA pure water.

[raf727]

Dehydration