How Long After Sickness Before You Get Back To Training?
12-10-14, 10:24 AM
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How Long After Sickness Before You Get Back To Training?
After a couple days with the flu or some sort of cold virus I feel good again... Do I just jump back into training 5/6 hours a day again or do I sort of belabor the training? Do I continue to take antibiotics while training?
Also, is training the reason I got sick? Am I doing damage to my immune system somehow?
Also, is training the reason I got sick? Am I doing damage to my immune system somehow?
12-10-14, 10:43 AM
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If you were prescribed antibiotics, then the culprit is bacteria not a virus. You must continue to take the antibiotics until gone, or the remaining bacteria will reproduce, making you sick again, and they will have developed a bit of a resistance to the antibiotics making them harder to treat in future.
Your body will tell you how hard you will be able to train. I would be surprised if you could get back to 5/6 hours the first few days back at it.
Your body will tell you how hard you will be able to train. I would be surprised if you could get back to 5/6 hours the first few days back at it.
12-10-14, 10:54 AM
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12-10-14, 12:02 PM
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Generally I pedal when I'm sick. In fact, last weekend 55 miles with a sore throat. But if I'm really under the weather, there's no way I'll go ride 5 or 6 hours. An hour max.
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when my morning hr is back to normal range
12-10-14, 03:33 PM
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^This sounds like a good metric to use. I remember reading a few times in different places that overdoing training too soon after a sickness can sometimes trigger post-viral fatigue syndrome, a.k.a. chronic fatigue syndrome. Better to lose a little training time than potentially suffer for years in my opinion.
12-10-14, 05:29 PM
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This is one of those "it depends" answers. A flu can vary from making you totally wiped out to just feeling blah, with everything in between. You should know how you feel and what your body can tolerate, so listen to your body on this one. There's nothing wrong with dialing it back a few days if you feel up to riding, then gradually resume full training when you feel better. If you push too hard, too soon, you could regret it.
12-10-14, 06:10 PM
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Your body will let you know, I jumped right back into training once to soon after being sick and ended up with mono
12-10-14, 07:45 PM
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what RG said.. iam old now but when younger i over did it and got mono also, you do not want that. Thought the mono was gone started training again and mono came back.Get healed up before going hard.
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