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  • 07-07-2011 11:21am
    #1
    K09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 649 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I am just about getting to the end of a headcold/chesty cough. Do you think it would now be fine to get back in the gym? Or should I wait til completely cleared?

    Just need to get back training very soon.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Reggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭Reggy


    K09 wrote: »
    Hi,

    I am just about getting to the end of a headcold/chesty cough. Do you think it would now be fine to get back in the gym? Or should I wait til completely cleared?

    Just need to get back training very soon.

    Thanks.

    I personally would wait, the germs are probably still incubated in your body and the sweaty/warm environment of the gym is a perfect place for germs to be passed to other people.

    In terms of performance, you will probably suffer a bit more because the infection will make it harder for you to take in and utilise oxygen as optimumly as you usually do, so you might feel light headed and lethargic.

    It may take you longer to get fully better as exercise produces free radicals and causes oxidative stress. coupled with the free radicals from your upper respiratory tract infection, it might take longer for you to get back to 100%, and you will wonder why you are still sick! Make sure u are getting RDA amounts of vitamin C and give it an extra couple of days.


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