I’ve got some thinking and research to do.
Yes indeed. It is a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly. For your amusement:
There is a lot of truth in those comics…
Be aware also that the US requires this delightful little test here:
I think Canada is no longer a refuge so if you want to avoid it you will need to look further afield. UK, Australia etc…
I did pretty well on my GRE so I’m not too worried about that one. I think that would actually help me.
Regardless, I have to get some sort of professional job for a couple of years at least before any of this becomes financially possible. I pretty much burned through the last of my education money getting my Masters and now only have enough to move in case I get a job offer out of town and still have loans to pay off.
Brain fog has to do with depression. Even if the individual isn’t aware of it, it simply means he is working out because he wants to get somewhere but it simply doesn’t match up logically with his current lifestyle. Brain fog means you are lost, those who don’t get it know exactly why they are doing that exercise or workout, that’s why they don’t get it, because they don’t lose focus. It has a lot to do with goal accomplishment and how much you are physically working out that isn’t directly benefiting the goals you should be focusing on instead.
Hi there,
In 2011 you posted a thread about exercise and mental incapacity . I have exactly the same problem and I have been visiting doctors so I can figure out what causes this problem. Did you finally find out the reason why you experience those symptoms and how to treat them?
Niko
I have this problem too. I cut back to working out really hard once a week. That’s what works for me.
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I have this problem too. I cut back to working out really hard once a week. That’s what works for me.[/quote]
Happens to me too. Usually feel cloudy, for a lack of a better term, for an hour or so on days I really push it.
Does anyone else start to yawn about mid-way through their session?
Did I read correctly that you were 195lbs at 9% body fat, now you’re 165% at 7% body fat? That doesn’t seem right, unless you lost like 23 lbs of lbm in the process. How tall are you?
I had this problem when my hypogonadism was untreated fourteen years ago. I would leave the gym DESTROYED.
I figured it out. Y’all are getting a STUPID PUMP!
More and more fats for the diet. Problem solved.
Update from the original poster?
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I have experienced the same i am software programmer. I find it hard to concentrate and work when i do weights. Generally for days this has affected me a lot at work and decreased my work performance significantly. So i did a test I took a IQ test without working out and i got a 130 and i took it after i worked out not right after i worked out but later during the day and the IQ recorded came to be 95 that’s significantly lower.Many people might not believe the fact but its true and i need my brain to make money i guess it depends on whats important to you. I think it is smarted to survive in this world.
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Working out releases anandamide(sp?) Which is a cannbinoid so… Maybe that’s why… You’re a little stoned? Not actually endorphins after all, “they” have found.
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Curious if anybody progressed on this problem, found a prevention technique or whatever. Could be many things , blood pressure variations / OrtostaticHT, Central nervous system fatigue, salt ,vitamins and minerals issues, Nocebo effects…
Do you use aspartame???
Had your thyroid checked?
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Does it happen after your post workout… Whatever ( meal/shake)? Or does it make a difference? Possibly an insulin issue. Reactive hypoglycemia? Sometimes it takes a couple of days for me to recover from a “bad episode”. I am newbie in this game, and learned the hard way.
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Sometimes I did feel same after brutal workouts, but what helped me is that I started to train PM after my job hours not before. Training 1 day on 1 day off also helped a lot. Doing Upper/Lower split 1on1off currently and it also seems better to affect my mental capacity compared with high volume bro split from Mon-Sat with frequency 1 time per week.
For me it comes from not drinking enough water post-workout (and perhaps before), I only recently discovered this, I am training more frequently because I know this now.
I am affected by this very seriously. Workout will always make it difficult to get out of bed the next morning and will have low energy, feel extremely lazy, have a very strong desire to lay down, get irritated easily and have a reduced ability to perform mental tasks. It doesn’t matter what I eat,how much water I will drink and how much I sleep or rest. The results will always be the same.
This problem seems to be very rare as most people that I ask find it weird when I describe to them my post workout effects. I believe that all of us that experience this problem have something special in our physiology. Some dysfunction related to the mechanism that breaks down metabolic waste, some sensitivity of our brain tissue to high blood pressure, and a tendency of our heart muscle to get overly tired when working against high blood pressure and need a prolonged period of time to recover. Because the best way I can describe my post workout symptoms is a combination of the following three problems: 1) foggy ming 2) muscles that feel so sore and tired that even simple physical tasks feel much more difficult than normal 3) heart beats that are stronger than normal to the extent that I can feel them on my sternum and sometimes even hear them.
I have seen several doctors for this issue and nobody has an answer. It seems that so far there is no cure for this problem because it might be that this problem has not yet been identified and therefore, no research has been conducted on it. I believe we all belong to a group of people who have something special in their physiology and we will have to accept the reality that we have to make some adjustments to the way we workout. And that to me means less days of workout every week, shorter workout sessions and avoidance of the Valsava maneuver.
Have you guys ever heard of the Valsava maneuver? You can simply Google it but pretty much it means blocking you exhalation while exerting strenuous physical effort. This increases the blood pressure dramatically and the most intense cases it can make you feel deasy and even cause a headache due to the extremely high pressure in your brain. I have noticed that very intense valsava maneuvers make my symptoms more severe.
What do you guys think?