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Title: training when you're sick
Post by: el numero uno on February 19, 2013, 04:18:24 PM
I got the flu and fever, usually if I train when I'm slightly sick I feel better after training (I guess it's the endorphines) but I feel like total crap the next day.

How about diet? Do you train or stick to a diet if you're sick.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: dr.chimps on February 19, 2013, 04:21:03 PM
Cripes. How about not. 
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: Natural Man on February 19, 2013, 04:23:21 PM
I got the flu and fever, usually if I train when I'm slightly sick I feel better after training (I guess it's the endorphines) but I feel like total crap the next day.


you realize you pretty answered your own question ? Looks like you should stop training and posting altogether.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: Obvious Gimmick on February 19, 2013, 04:25:26 PM
Take a few days off bro. It's not like you're going to squat beethovens 5th anyway
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: WOOO on February 19, 2013, 04:31:53 PM
I got the flu and fever, usually if I train when I'm slightly sick I feel better after training (I guess it's the endorphines) but I feel like total crap the next day.

How about diet? Do you train or stick to a diet if you're sick.


if i'm really sick (which is rare) i sleep... otherwise, if it's just a cold (no fever) i work out as hard as ever... i just try to get a lot of rest
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: el numero uno on February 19, 2013, 04:35:40 PM
The thing is I've already taken a few days off so skipping today's training would make it a week altogether.


if i'm really sick (which is rare) i sleep... otherwise, if it's just a cold (no fever) i work out as hard as ever... i just try to get a lot of rest

yeah I have some fever, not really that bad.  Maybe I could get away with it, maybe I just need some sleep, maybe the fever reduced mi IQ to tbombz levels. 
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: WOOO on February 19, 2013, 04:38:18 PM
The thing is I've already taken a few days off so skipping today's training would make it a week altogether.

yeah I have some fever, not really that bad.  Maybe I could get away with it, maybe I just need some sleep, maybe the fever reduced mi IQ to tbombz levels. 


if you feel like tbombz looks then i recommend you try to sleep it off....
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: polychronopolous on February 19, 2013, 04:39:54 PM
I barely have the strength to reach across the bed for the remote and turn off the god damn television when I have the flu, much less drive to the gym and get in a good workout.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: ChristopherA on February 19, 2013, 04:46:06 PM

if i'm really sick (which is rare) i sleep... otherwise, if it's just a cold (no fever) i work out as hard as ever... i just try to get a lot of rest
This right here. My girlfriend gets stir crazy, even if she's sick, and wants to do stuff. Just makes it worse! Go to sleep and wake up when it's gone
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: WOOO on February 19, 2013, 05:23:58 PM
i go and do some low intesnity stuff,i think it helps

while being sick, diet is the bigger problem.

its either starving or full out eating everything in sight



really? i've never noticed a change

i do avoid alcohol if i am sick... THC doesn't seem to have a negative effect though
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: Mr Nobody on February 19, 2013, 05:36:08 PM
 :'(
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: Voice of Doom on February 19, 2013, 05:37:56 PM
Why can't you take a week off of working out?  What's the worse that happens?
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: dustin on February 19, 2013, 05:38:43 PM
I don't go during the incubation period because I don't want to be a dick, but if I'm not contagious then I'll still hit the gym. I just do an upper/lower split, a light full body split or just do whichever body part I was going to train but use nothing more than warm up weights. It's basically a glorified pump session, but I think light cardio and light weight lifting promotes recovery way better than sitting at home and getting congested.

I don't stay at home when I'm sick anymore, but I swear that it speeds up recovery. I feel much, much better if I train lightly.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: Mr Nobody on February 19, 2013, 05:41:21 PM
Why can't you take a week off of working out?  What's the worse that happens?
Exactly, Arthur Jones always would make his trainees do this. Recovery is limited.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: WOOO on February 19, 2013, 05:44:25 PM
yeah for me its i either cant eat anything, of just cheat food.now way i could eat a clean bbuilders diet while sick.

in one scenario i come out with less water and leaner, in the other,therell be some 10lbs bloof ;D

i dont smoke the weed, dont have opinion on that



i don't smoke either anymore... i vaporize... the only way to fly
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: cswol on February 19, 2013, 08:46:01 PM
its best to just lay in bed and rest and go when your better
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: deadz on February 19, 2013, 08:47:24 PM
Been doing it the better part of two months, fuck winter!
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: cswol on February 19, 2013, 08:50:38 PM
a good thing to buy in GSE the liquid one, you can get it at whole foods or other health stores, or online, kills free radicals and keeps your blood clean, natural antibiotic 50 drops a day keeps you good
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: Radical Plato on February 19, 2013, 08:59:55 PM
I can't stand those people who come to the gym when they are sick, coughing and sputtering everywhere, you just know they are retarded, their body is telling them to rest and their immune system is compromised and yet they go to the gym and exert themselves.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: arce1988 on February 19, 2013, 09:11:56 PM
  stay in bed and sleep
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: booty on February 19, 2013, 09:16:31 PM
Rest and get plenty of fluids and if you can eat home made chicken soup. I find it gives you the fluids as well as its really light. I usually lose my Appetite altogether if I am sick and I even don't want to drink much water.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: cswol on February 19, 2013, 10:14:22 PM
GSE, chicken noodle soup, echinacea, golden seal, gatorade, water, green tea, honey lemon, and rest, also getting in the steam room helps too, sweat it out.
Title: Re: training when you're sick
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on February 19, 2013, 10:22:59 PM
If you're sick, do a 3 to 5 day water fast. After that, get your body to the alkaline side of things.