Checking in: exercising while sick
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exercise_every_dayTriggers: disease. Nasty filthy little germs. Microbes. Viral outbreak. Plague.
Ok, I'm not seriously sick. Just a head cold. The kind of thing where you know that courtesy demands that you protect friends and coworkers and work-out partners from your filthy presence, but you're not so sick that you can just wallow in bed without going completely stir-crazy.
So for the last few days I've tried to rest up, drink my fluids and so on, but I can't help wanting to go out for walks, do a little kata...just anything to move the blood around, really, and stave off the depression that comes from inactivity and the feeling that if I stop my body will fall instantly into decrepitude. I haven't done any running, or any CrossFitting -- though I suppose there might be some comedy in a badly-timed sneezing fit during a heavy kettlebell snatch -- just walking. Some slo-mo kata (and boy that raises feelings...someday I need to either read or right about the semiotics of motion experienced from inside the body).
And burning, seething resentment at this period of enforced moderation.
Ok, I'm not seriously sick. Just a head cold. The kind of thing where you know that courtesy demands that you protect friends and coworkers and work-out partners from your filthy presence, but you're not so sick that you can just wallow in bed without going completely stir-crazy.
So for the last few days I've tried to rest up, drink my fluids and so on, but I can't help wanting to go out for walks, do a little kata...just anything to move the blood around, really, and stave off the depression that comes from inactivity and the feeling that if I stop my body will fall instantly into decrepitude. I haven't done any running, or any CrossFitting -- though I suppose there might be some comedy in a badly-timed sneezing fit during a heavy kettlebell snatch -- just walking. Some slo-mo kata (and boy that raises feelings...someday I need to either read or right about the semiotics of motion experienced from inside the body).
And burning, seething resentment at this period of enforced moderation.
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Date: 2011-10-07 09:39 am (UTC)I have a cold coming on, too. Of all the stupid things...
Can't you even go for a walk? To see something different than the insides of your place, at least? The doc has had Words with me about exercising while sick, but even she had to admit that going on walks was fine... as long as the walks did not involve mountains.
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Date: 2011-10-07 01:52 pm (UTC)(He'll be here all night folks. Try the veal, and remember to tip your server.)
Adjusts collar.
Anyway, I should apologize for not being clear. Yes, I've gone for walks. Modest walks for fresh air and a little bit of movement. I'm whining childishly because that's all I've been doing. :-)
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Date: 2011-10-08 12:17 am (UTC)If it's above the neck -- exercise mild to moderately. If it's below the neck, exercise only when you're feeling better. If you're worried about infecting other people, go for a walk or a run.
here.
I know when I have a head cold, a walk can make me feel so much better. I just take lots of kleenex.
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Date: 2011-10-08 08:18 pm (UTC)