A Minute or Two at a Time?

giftieetcetera

I'm recovering from a viral infection. Sore throat, achy chest, sniffles. There's no way I can do my usual 30 minute minimum daily workout. I tried the last two days and it put me in bed with my asthma inhaler.

Instead, I am doing strength exercises (pushups, crutches, squats...that sort of thing) in one to two minute intervals. Should I log that and eat the calories, even though it is in small intervals. It's raising my heart rate. Actually, being mildly sick, it's more work than usual. I'm doing it anyway (calories or not) because I'm not sick enough to justify just staying in bed and don't want to lose the toning that I have achieved. Obviously, if this gives me any trouble breathing at all, I won't do it. But so far, I'm fine as long as I just go a minute or two.

ilovedeadlifts

Focus on recovering.

You'd be better off doing next to nothing and eating a little extra for two days and then getting well as opposed to pushing too hard while sick, and remaining under the weather for another week.