Pretty much the title. I’ve been training for 5 months, injured for 4 weeks in there - just came off of a 2wk recovery from a knee injury. I’m relatively young, 6ft 175lbs, in pretty decent shape.

But I overexert myself to the point of vomiting nearly every class. It’s frustrating and embarassing.

I’ve started doing more cardio and have improved a lot in that regard, but it doesn’t seem to help at all on the mats. Do I just need to do more cardio? Is there something nutrition-wise that could help? Open to any and all suggestions.

Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice. I will try 1) not try so hard and ask partners to help me with that, 2) advice to talk to my doctor - I have in the past and he wasn’t much help - but it got me to do some research… some medication I’m on can cause hyponatremia, which can cause nausea and vomiting especially after exercise… so I’m going to try a saline solution before/during class and may report back if it works.

Edit 2: took a 3% hypertonic salt solution to class today and it seems to have worked. I asked a higher belt to really push me in a difficult roll after class to test it. Not certain yet, but seems to have fixed the vomiting

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m genuinely not spazzy though. I have never injured a training partner and never crank submissions. People like rolling with me afaik, I’m a generally conscientious training partner. Of the 2 times I was injured (rib fracture and knee injury) the first was an overzealous whitebelt with an unfortunate knee getting into side control and the second was a freak accident drilling tai otoshi with a much larger guy.

    I’m typically a bottom player because my escapes are bad, so if I don’t get a dominant position early then I’m stuck on defense and don’t know many subs from bottom. I’m quite good at not getting subbed (compared to my other skills, I’m very bad all around), though I still get subbed all the time. I don’t have a big ego about it, I just want to perform better. I’ve been trying to stay as chill as possible, letting go of grips that I don’t need, breathing purposefully, generally trying to stay loose, but still find myself gassing out after 1 or 2 rolls. Then I sometimes don’t take rest rounds when I probably should - probably part of the issue.

    • Lucz1848English
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’d get external opinions on your rolling intensity, just to make sure that you’re self assessment is within reasonable range. That goes for your intensity level, your breathing patterns, etc.

      • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thats fair. I’ve been told that I’m still rigid and need to control my breathing - so although I’m improving, I’m not there yet. Maybe I’m going harder than I think I am

        • Lucz1848English
          3·
          1 year ago

          The quickest way to fix it is to either roll exclusively with the pre-teen class, or as though you are. Lose the option to go HAM.

          Most white belts (and far too many upper belts, tbh) can give zero, seven, or ten easily, and will struggle to find the useful learning gears (one through five). It is a work in progress, but we’ll worth the effort.

          There’s nothing better for your Jiu-Jitsu than having a wide variety of training partners of all sizes, who know that they’ll get a quality roll out of you every time.