Exercising while sick???

Bronchitis? No way - I follow the neck and up rule. Neck and up, low impact workout, below that, nope. A few days off is not going to hurt you. If you will be doing aerobics at a public location then absolutely not. Be courteous to others.

Edited because I thought you said water aerobics.

No water aerobics. Just dance aerobics. I've not done a workout since Friday and it's killing me. Didn't realize I could be so addicted to it already but I am truly missing it.

Bronchitis is nothing to mess with though. Take a walk if you want, just listen to your body.

No way. You have to rest.

with bronchitis I would take it easy if you want to take a walk that's fine but don't push yourself....last thing you want to do is make yourself worse. If you start to feel worse stop and let your body rest until you are back to feeling better.

I know how you feel though, once you get used to working out its hard not to.....however I have pushed myself to the point of getting pneumonia and I can say it wasn't worth it

When I had bronchitis last spring I did continue to exercise but I did less. Most weeks I have two or three days where I have double workouts - cardio in the morning, and then strength and cardio in the afternoon. While I was sick I stuck to one workout a day. Often that work out was less intense (as measured by the distance on my stationary bike after 45 minutes).

If you can exercise without going into a coughing fit, I tend to think it is a good thing. However if it sends you into a coughing fit, or wipes you out too much to do whatever else you need to do during the day, then skip it. I think it really depends on how you feel.

Missing a few workouts is not going to stall your weight loss if you stick to your calorie goals.

Usually the rule of thumb for cardio is if it's above the neck and you don't have a fever, it's okay to do cardio (head cold). Below the neck, like bronchitis, no.

you can't push the sickness out with exercise, your body simply doesn't work like that.

Exercising with bronchitis is a bad idea. With a cold, that's usually fine.

I follow the below the neck rule... if I'm sick below the neck (fever, upset stomach, chest infection or similar) then I don't work out. If it's just above the neck, e.g. cold, headache, stuffy nose, cough (from the throat), sneezing, then i work out.

Your immune system has a role in recovery from exercise. So if you're sick, and also recovering from exercise, your immune system is basically fighting on two fronts, and that can make it harder for it to fight off the infection, and you'll take longer to recover and possibly make yourself more sick in the process. Also, some symptoms like fever can make exercise risky - your body temperature can rise even higher and you're likely to pass out. And heavy lifting when you have diarrhoea... well let's not just go there with what could happen lol

Anyway, point being that minor stuff it's okay to exercise, but more severe symptoms you should rest and recover so your immune system can give 100% to kicking virus and bacteria butts.