How do you make leg days more bearable? And is there any treatment for exertion headaches?
Hi all, I don't know if I'm just having a particularly bad leg day today, but I had some of the worst bloating, nausea and headaches ever today. Exertion headaches were quite normal on leg days in the past for me, but I just felt like vomiting throughout the whole session which was new for me. The main culprit seems to be from lying leg curls but since my gym only has that machine and not the seated variant, I don't have much choice.
For context, I'm doing a 3-day ULU. I was originally doing a ULUL split but since I've started uni, I haven't found the time to commit and since I'm trying to focus more on upper body development, I decided to drop the extra leg day. I'm not proud of it, but I've basically just been using machines like leg press, lying leg curls, leg extensions and back hyperextensions as part of the main exercises for my leg day and I follow a GZCLP-style progression.
I used to really enjoy training legs in the past, but I think that's just because I was training with a lower weight, but now that I've progressed a bit more, I've had to fully exhaust myself to push the weight which leads to exertion headaches for me.
Really sorry for the long rant but my question is that I'm still able to linearly progress but I'm wondering if it'll be better for me to deload? I'm wondering if this could also help with treating exertion headaches