I am really itching to get into the pool today as I usually spend 2 days a week doing drylands only and yesterday was one of them (and I had planned turkey day to be the other since I need to do a bit of traveling). However, I have a really terrible sore throat and some congestion. So much so, that I stayed home from work so people wouldn't be yelling at me to go home all day, and it being a slow work week I knew I could get away with it. Although, I feel like I could get a small workout in, or at least try and see how it feels.
I'm not sure wether to go with the theory that my body needs a break, or the theory that if you're not glued to the bed, you should go work out.
I am at a critical time right now where after years of being out of swimming I am ALMOST built up to what I consider for myself to be respectable amounts of working out per week and making certain times in practice. Little setbacks like this end up being pretty big because I usually can only swim between 30 and 45 minutes 5 days a week. Considering the life of a 26 year old in her first few professional years also in a degree program with a new niece and nephew 2 hours away, being able to get that amount of time in the pool I think is a major accomplishment. Just not quite enough time to re-build that feel for the water very well or very quickly.
I might compromise and just do some more (but light) drylands today instead.
So, I am wondering what people do when they aren't sick enough to stay in bed all day but still sick. Are there any studies out there, or is it really just an individual gut feeling on what you should do?
Thanks!
typically, unless i am glued to my bed, sick as a dog, i try and get in at least a short workout. but i definitely take it easy. i'd rather get in, maintain at least a little feel for the water, and maybe even hack up some of the nasty junk in my head/lungs ;)
but you *have* to take it easy. i usually swim 4500-5000 yards in a practice, but if i'm sick, i will drop down to around 2000-2500. and usually just a lot of long slow stuff, focusing on good strokes.
if you can't drag yourself to the pool, don't consider this a set back, just a break that your body would eventually need anyways. just an example from my past- in 2005, i got a really nasty case of the flu (as in i was in bed for 3 days straight, thankfully my little brother went to college in the same town i was living in at the time!) so i was out of the water for 5 straight days, and during a training period i considered very critical for success at USMS nationals that spring. i was a little bent out of shape over being out of the water for that long, but it was okay in the end, cause not only did i have 4 masters PBs at nationals, i also won 2 of my events...
just my :2cents:
typically, unless i am glued to my bed, sick as a dog, i try and get in at least a short workout. but i definitely take it easy. i'd rather get in, maintain at least a little feel for the water, and maybe even hack up some of the nasty junk in my head/lungs ;)
but you *have* to take it easy. i usually swim 4500-5000 yards in a practice, but if i'm sick, i will drop down to around 2000-2500. and usually just a lot of long slow stuff, focusing on good strokes.
if you can't drag yourself to the pool, don't consider this a set back, just a break that your body would eventually need anyways. just an example from my past- in 2005, i got a really nasty case of the flu (as in i was in bed for 3 days straight, thankfully my little brother went to college in the same town i was living in at the time!) so i was out of the water for 5 straight days, and during a training period i considered very critical for success at USMS nationals that spring. i was a little bent out of shape over being out of the water for that long, but it was okay in the end, cause not only did i have 4 masters PBs at nationals, i also won 2 of my events...
just my :2cents:
