These notes combine advice from 24 reviewed passages across 14 workouts.
The urge to vomit appears mainly in high-intensity interval work, and much less in muscle-focused training; many people dislike HIIT and cardio for this reason. In continuous spinning, everyone vomits during the first three or four months before the body adapts.
Nausea during training has several possible causes. You may have eaten shortly before, you may have felt unwell from the start, or the session itself may have upset your stomach. It is not always due to the training alone.
Intense nausea during training can be a form of ‘sports poisoning’: the body expels things, and the response is positive and can be increased. The vomiting response resembles the body’s response to bad food, which pushes out what it does not want. The important thing is to erase this response.
Reaching the level where training provokes vomiting can be a developmental factor. Vomiting can occur even at low volumes, such as five, and is not necessarily a problem. Coach says a few handstands will overcome the current weakness.
If you still have work to do, split it into smaller intervals with rest between, for example ten push-ups, a short rest, then another ten.
When a movement consistently triggers nausea at high volumes, lower the rep target for that movement and keep the movements that score well. For example, cap squat jumps at 40 instead of 60 and keep dips.
If a specific movement reliably brings on nausea when overdone, avoid selecting it and shift the effort to other exercises.
