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Should you exercise when you're sick?

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  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    If you are showing symptoms of any kind and sneezing, coughing, feverish, etc. Do the world a favor and stay home rather than risk spreading an infection.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    In most cases if I can go to work I can workout.

    Miss a couple days of work a year for sickness
  • ImSoSquishy
    ImSoSquishy Posts: 57 Member
    if you're coughing, coughing out mucus, sneezing, or have a runny nose w/ watery eyes, then i really don't recommend it as any of those can easily mess up your form and possibly make you injured especially on squat, bench, and deadlifts.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    Exercise temporarily reduces your immunity system, so it's much better to rest and recover. It won't kill you to work out, but because your immunity is compromised for awhile, you're likely looking at a longer total recovery time.

    http://www.coreperformance.com/knowledge/wellness/how-exercise-affects-immunity.html

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  • JBanx256
    JBanx256 Posts: 1,479 Member
    If I'm just a little sniffly or a little bit of a cough, your run-of-the-mill head cold, yeah, I'll go, but may dial it back a notch. If I'm feeling pukey, have a fever, total-body aches/chills, etc, then nope!
  • Lolinloggen
    Lolinloggen Posts: 466 Member
    my measure is: Above the shoulders - cold mainly get out and exercise Makes me feel better
    Below the shoulders - Flu with fever etc - stay in bed or go for a gentle walk when possible just to get some fresh air
  • Ainadan
    Ainadan Posts: 158 Member
    I don't know what these "head colds" are that people speak of. If I get a cold my lungs always feel achy, even if I'm not coughing a lot. Is that still a head cold?
  • comptonelizabeth
    comptonelizabeth Posts: 1,701 Member
    Ainadan wrote: »
    I don't know what these "head colds" are that people speak of. If I get a cold my lungs always feel achy, even if I'm not coughing a lot. Is that still a head cold?

    It's one of the terms my mum used to use, along with bilious attack (aka stomach bug), lumbago (aka lower back pain) and sugar diabetes (as though there were any other kind)
    I think it means a cold that only affects your nose but, like you, I find they invariably affect my throat and chest too

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