When to return to workouts

Nysportsred

I know there's no definite answer, but want to see if anyone has had a similar situation or can give an opinion.

I workout usually 4 times a week. Thursday i wirked out but the entire day I was a kittke run down. Thursday night the stonach bug going around my office got me. Fruday I ended uo going to the doctir and I was given 1.5 bags of IV. I was about 90% better on Saturday.

Today I still feel sluggish and whike I have kept everything down since Saturday my stomach is still a little "funny" if that makes sense.

I feel like I should be exercising again since the bug only lasted 24 hours and now it's 3 days later and how could something lasting 24 hours still be keeping me resting? It's like a guilt feeling as I was going to today, but my body was as I mentioned above.

Anyone able to give their thoughts?

jemhh

I would wait. I take a very long term view of this kind of thing. If I am truly sick, I may take 7-10 days off. Over the course of the year, that's not a big deal. It's not going to set me back. It wouldn't set you back either. I am assuming that you are not a professional athlete when I say this.

Nysportsred

You assume correctly lol. I kept track if last year and I worked out 196 days (roughly 53% of the year).

jemhh

Well then you are doing great. I had the flu (respiratory not stomach) in mid December and was off lifting for a week and am just getting back to cardio now.

Not a great time to have to pull back on exercise (holiday party time) but such is life.

lorrpb

To have that much IV fluid means you were in sad shape and it will take awhile to get back to 100%. Feel better soon!

Lefty1290

lorrpb wrote: »

To have that much IV fluid means you were in sad shape and it will take awhile to get back to 100%. Feel better soon!

Yeah, if you needed IV fluids, you were pretty dehydrated.

I had a 24-hour bug last year (felt sick Sunday night, slept all day Monday) and didn't feel well enough to workout until Thursday. Listen to your body and don't push it. Get your hydration, electrolytes, and energy back in check first.

Nysportsred

Thanks everyone. I've never needed IV before so I didn't know how bad 1.5 bags really meant I was. Like I said I felt both guilty about not working out and especially after totaling 2016's workouts it immediately goes in to my head that I want to either equal that or pass it.

canadianlbs

Nysportsred wrote: »

Thanks everyone. I've never needed IV before so I didn't know how bad 1.5 bags really meant I was. Like I said I felt both guilty about not working out and especially after totaling 2016's workouts it immediately goes in to my head that I want to either equal that or pass it.

i had great progress going for my last cycle of the year too. but i caught something last week as well. i pretty much lost a few days, friday night through until monday morning. no barfing, but every time i woke up i'd manage about two cups of water before i had to go lie down and get sleeping again. i ate two oranges over two days and about half of a small protein shake.

i felt pretty normal today, in the sense that the fever's gone and i can actually move around through a normal day like a normal person. but the scale is down by five pounds or more and i'm still really not into food, so i don't feel like pushing it yet. not to mention, even if i'm not infectious anymore the gym's probably stuffed with resolutionists who (at least some of them) probably have something they're coming down with/just getting over themselves.

i don't want to make anyone sick. but i also don't want to catch some second whammy while my immune system's still distracted with trying to fight off whatever that was i just had. i figure i'll wait until i'm both eating more like i usually eat and/or i actually want to go back to the gym.