Is it BAD to Workout When You Have a Cold or Flu?
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Physical activity increases your heart rate, but so can some coldmedicines. So a combo of exercise and decongestantscan cause your heartto pump very hard. You may become short of breath and have.The answer depends on what ails you, experts tell WebMD. For example, exercising with a cold may be OK, but if you’ve got a fever, hitting the gym is a definite no-no.
Fever is the limiting facto.Exercise is usually OK if your symptoms are all “above the neck.” These signs and symptoms include those you may have with a common cold, such as a runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing or minor sore throat. Consider reducing the intensity and length of your workout. Instead of going for a run, take a walk, for example.
The Common Cold and Exercise “Research has shown that when someone has a cold virus, in general, it is safe to exercise,” says Leah Mooshil Durs.Applying ice can reduce swelling by reducing the blood flow and metabolic processes that are present during an inflammatory response produced by exercise or an acute injury. Reduces muscle spasm. For similar physiological reasons, decreased muscle spasm and guarding is a benefit of using ice.For symptoms isolated above the neck — think the congestion, sore throat, or sneezing of a common cold — you can continue light or moderate activity.
Try taking a.The severity and symptoms of your cold decide whether you should be exercising or not. If the symptoms are all above the neck, such as a stuffy or runny nose, a sore throat of minor severity or sneezing, exercising will usually be fine. You just need to reduce the intensity of your work-out regime.
If your symptoms are above the neck (sore throat, congestion) moderate exercise is ok. However, you should avoid intense exercise. If your symptoms are below the neck (aches, swollen glands, bad cough), you should skip the workout and rest until your symptoms subside.
Exercising in the cold presents its own safety risks, as it leaves you vulnerable to frostbite and hypothermia. When working out in cold weather, dress in layers that you can remove once you start to sweat and put back on once your body temperature cools.You can safely exercise when the symptoms of your cold are light and tolerable. This is the case when your symptoms only include sneezing, congestion, or throat pain. If the symptoms are light and you otherwise feel fit enough, there’s no problem.
Your cold symptoms might be more severe or intense.If you’re still not sure if exercising with a cold makes sense for you, check with your doctor. Bottom line: Experts stress that you shouldn’t feel obligated to exercise with a cold.
But if you.A general rule of thumb exercising with a cold is usually fine as long as your symptoms are in your head. If you have chest congestion, a fever or body aches you should probably take a rest day.
Another general rule is to listen to your body. Your overall health should come before fitness goals.While exercise, in general, is helpful in many ways, overdoing it can both increase your risk of developing a cold and interfere with your recovery when you do get ill. Strenuous exercise should be avoided with a cold until all of your symptoms have resolved. For mild colds, mild to moderate exercise is probably OK.
“Exercise is medicine. If you have symptoms above the neck, things like runny nose, sneezing, of the common cold, such as nasal congestion or runny nose, or minor sore throat, you’re OK to exercise,” says Dr. Montero. ” Exercise may even help you feel better by opening up your nasal passages, for instance.
Does that mean that you need to sit at home? No way. My favorite ways to exercise with a cold: Go outside for a heart-pumping walk or easy jog.
Do an online yoga class in your living room. Bounce on your trampoline in the backyard. Take your bike out for a spin. Keep up your usual healthy eating habits and add more fluids to help flush the congestion from your nose.
These low-intensity workouts will.
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84 comments
Just don’t dead-lift with Gastroenteritis. Trust me its not worth it.
Do a video on working out when you have seasonal pollen allergies. I was on a really good track but it’s been impossible to do cardio, lift, etc when I’m sneezing and can’t breath well. Taking a pill doesn’t help much either because it makes me drowsy.
What if you are having nausea or diarrhoea should you work out then?
Jeff is absolutely right, but now I’m going to tell you the LIFEHACK №1 that works every time (at least for me). When I’m sick (cold, flu, etc.) I pick 2 days when i’m not at work and do the following ritual: day 1 sleep untill about noon, after I wake up I don’t do absolutely nothing that requires fisical efford just stay in bed or on a chair and EAT and REST through the entyre day, then in the evening I take my preworkout shake and TRAIN like there is no tomorrow NO MATTER how sick I feel ( I mean even your nails should sweat ) and train untill I’m about to blackout, after that I make some tea and add a little hard alcohol in the glass, but every time I drink ( after every sip) I refill the mixture with alcohol and this continues untill there is no more tea, when that happens I drink everything that is left at once and immediatelly go to sleep before the alcohol kicks in. In the morning there is no trace of sickness. The logic is that either I’m going to survive this or not, but the virus will not survive it for sure, there is no room for both of us in my body. I think this could help even againts the COVID.
So basically if you feel like your dying don’t go to the gym but if your no pussy hit the gym and hit it hard, aight thanks coach
Bailed out on a 100k bike ride tomorrow as know it’s going to demanding.
Can feel increased heart rate with moderate exercise so know it’s right decision.
Human immune response is somewhat suppressed during vigorous exercise, so any working out during illness is completely idiotic and is a fast way to rapidly spread disease in a public gym. If coronavirus spreads, a gym will be a hotbed for it since there are so many dumb jocks who think working out during illness makes it better. And remember, just because you are sick with one virus doesn’t make you immune to another. The best way to get multiple viruses, and increase your chance for mortality, is to go to a public gym thinking working out will make your cold or flu go away faster. And you put everyone else at risk. Stupid for you, stupid for everyone else.
Hello, I’ve been feeling like crap lately with stuffy nose, terrible sore throat and dealing with my 3 year old’s old!!! I’m in a 90 day transformation challenge..and Ive notice that I feel even worst as I’m trying to warm up. Thank you so much for your advice, Ive waited this long to build these pounds and not do NOTHING to change 4 years ago, I’m sure my body can wait until I fully recover.☺
Thank you SOOO MUCH for this video!!! I’ve been going HARD with my weight training the past few months and I JUST got sick and it’s seriously messing with my head!! I feel so down because I want to be in the gym so damn bad!! I appreciate this video and your advice and insight. Much love! ������������������������‼️
I have corona, and worked out for a week straight, I still feel like shit, but them gains still increasing.
Good points. If you can’t stand long enough to take a shower, chances are you’re entirely too sick for the gym 😉
There’s some gnarly flu going around at the moment and I’ve been off the gym for nearly 3 weeks now. Depressing AF!
I started getting the flu so I did pushups until failure to rid my body of this evil and wound up shiting myself. This might not sound ideal but I could feel all kinda gains in my draws man
Great advice lee, I’ve had a cold all week but I’ve still been working out, it does make you feel better after a workout but a few hours later it comes back:(.
Definitely one of the best workout channels on YouTube!! ����
What if i just have a slight cough and sore throat, but energy levels are good? Should i still workout
It’s crazy because I hadn’t had a workout for a week and I’ve been feeling fatter just sleeping in my bed and I have to go to work and I like eating bone broth and my appetite actually increases when I have a fever lol. Right now I’m post recovery from a flu but I’m hitting the gym today as this video plays.
I have had some great workouts when I actually had a slight fever.
Fantastic Video! So many of my questions answered in 4 minutes. TYVM for making this!
Glad I found this video. I’m sick with Bronchitis that nearly turned into Pneumonia. Only thing that’s helped besides the basics of eating well and taking the meds has been rest. Yes, it’s been upsetting and good both. I’ve maintained my weight and haven’t gained. I’m starting to see abs, and less visceral fat. I had some cheat eats on Thanksgiving day, but didn’t destroy myself due to being in a caloric deficit from being miserable. Before getting sick, I was plateauing with grip strength, progressively overloading, and weight loss. I’ve turned it in the opportunity to deload, and let the physical changes I’m seeing be the pay out to fight harder when I get well. Let the positives become a payout for wanting to improve and do better if injury or illness cause a time out. I will say I sometimes wish I could turn the dial back to being a teenager when it comes to fitness. Seemed like I had less Consequences back then with food, rest, and illnesses.
Thanks, i got two week under some hard flu, so i’ ll rest until heal my body thats the best advise you gave me, this morning when i woke up i couldnt even walk, so thanks so much.
I will totally agree u have to give urself time for ur body to get back together
I couldnt go to work because i was sick but i still wanna hit the gym.
I’m glad I don’t have to workout because I’m sick. Perfect excuse for me.
Thanks!
Me on a sick day: how to workout even when you’re sick
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Who’s watching this video in October 2019 because of the weather change ��
What is your advice on swollen lymph nodes due to fighting off the beginnings of an ear infection? Workout or no?
I just found out that if you have chest congestion it is not a good idea to exercise. I a few days ago I ride my bicycle 116 miles in one day. Since then I caught a cold and tried to take my bike out for a spin and got extremely winded and started sweating profusely….and this is less than a mile out. I turned around and came home.
Thanks brother you dominated my question I’ve been asking the internet for. No procrastination or dumb answer just straight to the facts. Insta-sub!
Jeff you never made this video again since 2015 and it’s 2019 now. Does this mean you have not been sick for the past four years?
I’m trying to follow the neck rule. Monday & Tuesday (yesterday & the day before) i was super sick. Fatigued, body aches, chills, fever, headache. Skipped the gym. Today i was tired, headache, nasal issues. Skipped the gym. I’m HOPING to feel better tomorrow (obviously) but when should I go back? Tomorrow? The next day? A week from now?
Who else is sick and typed “working out when sick” and clicked on this video ��
as a us marine hes full of as he says crap sick hurt sore tired there is never an excuse to stop training PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY G.O.M.L.
I got a cold last week… felt bad a few days… then woke up day 3 DEAD… spent 48 hours on the couch in really bad shape.. fever, cough, runny nose etc…. felt fine 48 hours later…. went and did a hard workout last night and now I feel sick af again….
I’m gonna go for a light jog… wish me luck!
You search this on google and get so many mixed answers. Of course I should have looked to Jeff first.
Today is the 1st day I do not have a sore throat in 8 days. Can I work out directly today or should I rest?
Momma ain’t raised no bitch, the only time you stop working out is when your dead
I just had the worst chest/tri workout today..a fever was building up.My head hurts like hell rn and i feel like vomiting.Barley even ate today,hopefully i get better because i feel like shit rn,and i HATE missing out a day at the gym.
I just want to get better been sick for three days and not working out makes me feel even worse
You put this perfectly, rest and recover.
When ism sick(now as it happens) really focus on nutritional intake.
watching this while not been at the gym for 1 week it feels to long man����
The scientific references link to the studies used in your sex video.
I was as the gym a couple of days ago, and i managed to touch my tongue With my finger, and at that moment i knew i had fucked up.
Next day, and i had a splitting headache, a Fever and threw up like crazy.
2 days later, and im not throwing up anymore, and eating again. So i thought i could hit the gym. When i got there, i had lots of energy in my head, but my body was tired.
I did some pushups to warm up, and after 10, i felt light headed, weak and tired.
I’ll just stay in bed for a couple of days i Guess…
Ever since I got sick I have been less like less appetite. I feel like I have been eating less. Is that normal?
I traveled over seas for 11 days and only did 2 workouts while i was away and was planning to get right back into it, then got sick the day I got back. I lost 3.5 kg in 3 days today I plan to get my gains back��
I was sick two weeks ago for 2 weeks, then went to school for 2 weeks, then i hitted gym twice and now im sick again. Fuck me.
Hey great stuff! can you give advice on good rotator cuff exercises? or ways to help recover an injured rotator cuff? thank you:-)
I threw up my entire rx2 shake on the captains chair wtf help
I’m wanting to start the athlean program but my stomach is acting horrible and I’m like crap but if I workout I’m gonna crap. I might have to do half of week 1 then do the full week the following week.
I find working out when ill just will make you sicker. Take a couple days off and get well. You could end up sicker if you don’t.
I hit my head first week had to rest half of it, second week got sick whole week iver Been so unlucky, i had just achieved so much at the gym and hit many of my goals and ofc this happens
I wish there was a winter workout when you can’t go outside. I live in Minnesota and it’s cold 6 months a year. ��
Probably the only video where Jeff doesn’t talk of Balanced Muscle gain. ��
Great Video, Jeff. Useful to hear those who are already feeling guilty about missing workouts/ for falling sick (like me).
A cold means you should stay home and work out instead of spreading it at the gym.
I got sick because I did not have enough rest or sleep well and it was from workout I am sure…
Dude thanks for educating us. I used to work in a gym and hated when people would be coming in sick, wiping their nose and shit with their hands then touching every piece of equipment. STAY YO ASS HOME!
Have to say i watching this became i am ill lol. And i no i am not going be the 1st or i am not going be the last.
I think if you are sick and contagious you should not go to a public gym.
Does workout helps in getting rid of fever https://youtu.be/BB7xjZ942n0
Yeah I did that thinking i was starting to get better… Then my fever rose up
damn I’m sick in summer and all that is my mistake. i wanna workout but all my body broken and also I’ve a headache, oh god i can’t get used to this TT
Is it okay to take a break while you have a sinus infection that makes you light headed and dizzy?
I have an ear infection and run 30 mins a day and aim to walk 10000 steps a day. I’m overweight so am just doing the walk, I really dont want to reduce my training as m ed health is already affected by the weight I gained.
Dang, I’m sick during a 2 week challenge…uhhgh…..but.. resting all day.
This corona virus �� wants me to stay in but I wanna go jog and get fresh air
I am sick today. But regardless of everything, I went for gym this
Gyms are gross to begin with. Don’t go to the gym if you’re sick. Workout at home and be considerate to others
If your sick stay your ass home don’t spread your germs to others.
Trying to show this to my parents to let me stay home from sports
Shit, i have been training for almost three months. After being almost anorexic. I am so afraid of losing all i have been working on
What a great advice! Thank you very much I really appreciate it! Big like!
I’m working out rn while sick it fucking sucks head hot coughing mucas sore throat(little) really sucks but I’m about to finish and it really will make you happy to sleep
This video was perfect just what I needed to stop myself from going over the top
A bit hard when nasal congestion makes it harder to breath properly
how about the diet? i recently got sick. And i just can’t handle those brown rice, chicken, eggs, and those steamed veggies while i’m on a recovery…
LOL
I had a cold a few years ago and i was like… NO, IM NOT THIS WEAK and I did a few pushups and blacked out lmao
No one has made a video on dieting when sickplease be the first
I do not recommend working out when sick because you can cause damage to your heart
When I workout while I have fever, it disappears momentarily
The like to dislike ratio is impressively humbling. However, I still can’t understand why anyone would dislike this kind of content.
This vid was perfect with all the questions I had..thank you!
I have P.E and i am sick but i still have to go to school so idk what to do i am trying to get well before school (tomorrow)
Got a blooming cold right now, feeling miserable and so tired. Left work early because of it. Definitely no gym today. Drinking green tea with lemon and honey. Let’s see how I feel tomorrow. This guy is spot on, btw. Thanks for making me feel better about this dude.
i did light cardio and it did wonders, i feel massively better