Head Rush
Last night at the gym, I had something interesting happen to me. Something I’ve never experienced before, so I thought it was blog worthy.
Since it was my first night back at the gym in several weeks, I decided to take it easy. I walked a few minutes on the treadmill to warm up, then jogged for about fifteen minutes. After a cool down on the treadmill, I moved into a little bit of circuit training. I alternated sets of sit-ups with different machines - incline bench press, butterfly machine, bicep curls, etc. I got my heart rate up pretty good, so after about thirty minutes of working out, I decided that would be enough for my first night back. My roommate was still working out, so I decided to just sit down and wait for him to get finished.
After a few minutes, I stood up to go read the day’s paper at the front desk. All of the sudden, I must’ve had a pretty severe head rush. I felt like I had tunnel vision. Everything started getting dark, and the sound from the gym’s radio slowly started to fade out. I knew I needed to make it to a machine to sit down. I made it to a machine, but I decided laying down would be better. I got up and walked over to the area with all of the sit-up machines. At that point, something as simple as walking took an extreme amount of focus. After laying down for a few minutes, I was fine. I knew this when the sound from the radio slowly came back to my hearing.
It was pretty interesting. I’ve never passed out before, but I had to have been on the verge of passing out. I know my workout triggered it, but the odd thing was I really didn’t work out all that hard. I didn’t “over do it” or push myself too much. As evidence, I’m not even sore today. I’m supposed to go back tonight, so hopefully I won’t have a repeat occurrence.
