To exercise while ill?

hot fuss

I hate missing out on a whole week of exercise the week before Christmas due to a crappy head cold but just feel zapped of energy.

So my question is.. should I burst through it and workout while sick or just accept that it can't be done and let it go..

BossArky

Like yourself I hate to miss an opportunity. I would take it a bit easier than usual though...

lubie76

Normally if the flu/cold type illness is from the neck up i.e coughing, sneezing, congested you should be fine, once you don't go overboard. From the neck down i.e. achy bones or muscles, feeling cold, lethargic is your bodies way of telling you to rest so don't do any type of exercise.

Dragan

lubie76 wrote: »

Normally if the flu/cold type illness is from the neck up i.e coughing, sneezing, congested you should be fine, once you don't go overboard. From the neck down i.e. achy bones or muscles, feeling cold, lethargic is your bodies way of telling you to rest so don't do any type of exercise.

Pretty much spot on and i was original told this by a coroner when asking questions about causes of "sudden death" in adults.

Fascinating conversation actually.

LegacyUser

Dragan wrote: »

Pretty much spot on and i was original told this by a coroner when asking questions about causes of "sudden death" in adults.

Fascinating conversation actually.

Damn right that's an interesting conversation...care to fill me in?!

Dragan

Basically we were talking about excercising while ill, one of the guest lecturers works as a coroner so he was a fount of knowledge about the craziest of stuff!

Basically he was saying the old over the neck/under the neck rule for illness when training as the "below the neck" is a relatively good indicator of a possible bacterial or viral infection, which through too much effort can be almost "pushed" into the heart causing all kinds of problems.

I have full lecture notes at home somewhere so will see if i can lay hands on them for tomorrow!

eroo

that would be great!

matrixroyal

Had this a few weeks ago coming after a period of great training. It wasn't too bad ( just in the head ) for the first 2 weeks and I kept up the training at the same pace. Then it got worse and I felt dreadful ( all over body aching ), but I still kept training ( hoping to bust through it ) but it was not helping. So I stopped training for 6 days, went to bed early every night and drank a lot of water ( more than usual ). It did the trick and the next week I felt better than ever. It was as if my body just wanted to catch up on some rest ( after a gruelling few months ) and I felt stronger after this brief rest period.

Would be interested to know the connection with overtraining and SAD. A lot of SAD is attributed to the heart and I was just wondering what the correlation could be ?

Dragan

matrixroyal wrote: »

Would be interested to know the connection with overtraining and SAD. A lot of SAD is attributed to the heart and I was just wondering what the correlation could be ?

It is thought that a lot of SAD's can be connecting to blood born bacteria crossing into the heart and interferring with systolic/dysystolic beat. The heart has a very closed off blood supply and if something gets in there your pretty much ****ed.

eroo

The heart has a very closed off blood supply and if something gets in there your pretty much ****ed

best way it can be put!:D

pardon my ignorance but what are SAD's?

g'em

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome

nesf

I thought they were talking about Seasonal Affective Disorder and was very confused by all the heart stuff.

walt0r

I've been dying since Sunday morning when I woke up with a hangover because was my bday at weekend. Then I realised quickly it was something more, got sick loads and had aches and pains. Aches and pains gone now but still coughing up a lot of phlegm, sux.
Had a bit of a flu alright but I should be okay by next week. Hate to miss a night out over xmas - won't be drinking much though.

BossArky

walt0r wrote: »

I've been dying since Sunday morning

Unlucky Waltor. Beat ya to it though... I've been dying since 1981.

GerryRyan

General rule with training while sick (says the MMA instructor):

Neck and above - train, but with less intensity
Below neck - take a rest and make up for it again.