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Should you exercise when you're sick?
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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.0
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In most cases if I can go to work I can workout.
Miss a couple days of work a year for sickness0 -
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.0
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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.
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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!0
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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 air0 -
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?1
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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 too1
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