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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I have hreard it is OK to workout if your symptoms are above the neck,but if you have a productive cough,GI symptoms or feel toxic don't workout. I read in a study of age groupers that those who took up to a week off with cold symptoms did better than those who kept swimming,that the time off didn't hurt them but the ones who kept swimming were sicker longer on average.
I have heard this as well. I have not been sick for 3 years, but I know if I had a cough, I would not swim, and same with my daughter, if she is coughing a lot. Just stuffed up nose, swimming actually loosens it. It also depends on if I or she has been sleeping well. Sometimes with a cold, you can't sleep, and I think exercising on a sick, tired body does not help it one bit. I listen to what my body tells me. I am such an avid exerciser, if it tells me no, I don't because I know I will be back at it soon enough.
I have hreard it is OK to workout if your symptoms are above the neck,but if you have a productive cough,GI symptoms or feel toxic don't workout. I read in a study of age groupers that those who took up to a week off with cold symptoms did better than those who kept swimming,that the time off didn't hurt them but the ones who kept swimming were sicker longer on average.
I have heard this as well. I have not been sick for 3 years, but I know if I had a cough, I would not swim, and same with my daughter, if she is coughing a lot. Just stuffed up nose, swimming actually loosens it. It also depends on if I or she has been sleeping well. Sometimes with a cold, you can't sleep, and I think exercising on a sick, tired body does not help it one bit. I listen to what my body tells me. I am such an avid exerciser, if it tells me no, I don't because I know I will be back at it soon enough.
