I would be interested in your collective thoughts on swimming with a cold, the flu, or worse. Two issues to consider...
1.) Exercise helps stimulate the body and may help with overcoming the illness, or at least it's symptoms. I'm not a doctor, so some feedback on this would be appreciated.
2.) As noted in another thread, what about your fellow swimmers, are you putting them at risk and possibly spreading whatever it is you have as we all gasp the same air at the end of the lanes? Again, not being a doctor, I would be interested in thoughts on how real (or imagined) this risk may be.
Happy New Year!
Helpful thread since I just had a cold. I also had to finish up a project so that cut into my time/energy for swimming or running in a big way. Actually, though, I think needing to finish my project kept me still and probably got me through this cold sooner than might have happened otherwise. I still did some light exercise, just some walking/easy running, a little easy swimming, but nothing much. Today I did a lighter workout also, and felt as if I could have done a good deal more, which I took to be a good sign.
I'll pick up the schedule again this week, but here's a question to follow up Redbird's...
If you cut back or took time off for, say, a week, how quickly did you return to your regular workout schedule?
A week ago yesterday, I struggled through a one-hour practice, constantly feeling as if I was going to have to stop, and was very slow a lot of the time. Today, I shortened the two hour practice to a little over an hour, took things easier, and felt pretty good, but obviously want to get the yards back up again.
Happy New Year, all!
Helpful thread since I just had a cold. I also had to finish up a project so that cut into my time/energy for swimming or running in a big way. Actually, though, I think needing to finish my project kept me still and probably got me through this cold sooner than might have happened otherwise. I still did some light exercise, just some walking/easy running, a little easy swimming, but nothing much. Today I did a lighter workout also, and felt as if I could have done a good deal more, which I took to be a good sign.
I'll pick up the schedule again this week, but here's a question to follow up Redbird's...
If you cut back or took time off for, say, a week, how quickly did you return to your regular workout schedule?
A week ago yesterday, I struggled through a one-hour practice, constantly feeling as if I was going to have to stop, and was very slow a lot of the time. Today, I shortened the two hour practice to a little over an hour, took things easier, and felt pretty good, but obviously want to get the yards back up again.
Happy New Year, all!
