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.
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Great question. For me, it takes a little over a week. For some reason, the first week back is a struggle against the demons that got me out of my practice rythm in the first place. Since I swim alone about half the time, that makes the demon voices even louder!
The way I have been coughing I am frightened to swim.. I doubt I could breathe properly...:(
Great question. For me, it takes a little over a week. For some reason, the first week back is a struggle against the demons that got me out of my practice rythm in the first place. Since I swim alone about half the time, that makes the demon voices even louder!
The way I have been coughing I am frightened to swim.. I doubt I could breathe properly...:(
