Slowman wrote:
Engner66 wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
I think we are in a agreement that for major illness (and this generally categorized in that group), you don't want to play around pushing things during and starting too early on the recovery swing. But based on limited information, I don't think any of us know if the OP is incapable of dealing with not training (that's what you said, but he did not explicitly say that). He just says he likes training as it helps him avoid being depressed (but we don't know if its clinical depression or he's using the world lightly.
There is limited data on this virus right now to the degree to which it affects people as many carrying on with day to day life, without any clue they are carrying it while others are at the other extreme in hospitals on ventilators, so he MAY be asking in that context of those on the extremely mild end that is so mild that its almost undetectable. But I don't know. Many here may have had mild cases already and not even noticed anything and carried on with life including training. As more data emerges on who all have antibodies, maybe the base of knowledge will be wider for the medical recommendations. For now, it seems to basically be "if you have it, stop everything" which makes the most sense given how little everyone knows about it.
This is just terrible advice.
To the OP: one of the pro tour cyclists, Colombian sprinter Fernando Gaviria, had the virus. He was out for months, if he can, you can. Just take the time off, just not worth it gambling with your health.
you might be right. it might be terrible advice. or it might be that your advice is terribly uninformed, which would not be an indictment on your advice, rather just a function of how much we don't know about this particular virus.
i suspect the conservative approach is probably the wise approach. but i don't know. do you? because, if so, i'd like to see the citations. i have no citations for you. therefore, i'm not comfortable giving advise with demonstrative authority.
Thank you!
It seems to be one of the ten commandments of exercise: thou shalt not exercise when sick.
I think that this is one of those things that gets repeated over and over and over until most people just accept it as the truth. I have looked and looked and looked and I have been able to find very little scientific data out there to reinforce this long held "truth".
It is my belief (supported only by my anecdotal experience) that exercise, and even hard exercise, can accelerate the healing process when you are sick. It would be a really cool study to conduct.....
ETA: There is some pretty good research out there on myocarditis and exercise and actually a position paper on return to exercise after myocarditis. If you are ill and have cardiac symptoms, it is likely very wise to be very cautious about return to exercise. These are not the people I am talking about. I am talking about folks with standard respiratory/viral infection and not feeling well..... My outside of the box theories on exercising while sick are just that; my theories. You are responsible for making your own decisions. I don't want to hear about some lawsuit because, "wannabefaster told me I could exercise while sick." Proceed with caution ;-)
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Jason
None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.
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wannabefaster: Jul 5, 20 15:03