Flu, how long before I can train again?

Hey brothers

So i came down with flue on Thursday evening which meant i skipped training on Friday, so i basically spent the whole weekend sitting nursing myself back to health and sleeping and yesterday i was feeling good, today even better.

i was just wondering if its safe for me to return to gym, since i know it can place a lot of strain on your heart training when you have flue, cold etc

K

If you don't have a chest infection and it isn't hard to breath, etc... Then you will be ok, it's not good when you having hard time getting air and then you go do a heavy 'gym' session.

But trust me some heavy weights, with good rests between, you will be ok... I don't like to train if i'm not at least 90% better or else I find the last bit of the flue just doesn't go away.

Thanks yea i feel almost hundreds except for a bit of phlegm! stoked for gym!

Just do weights, it sounds like you still have stuff in your chest, stay away from the cardio...

If you have full on flu you would be short of breath and would not even want to train. With flu its better to take 10 days to 2 weeks off. I find it takes me 10 days to get better with or without medication. I ended up in hospital once because i kept training while having flu. My haert rythm went all over the show. Doc said my haert muscle got damaged. You dont want this bud

Think you have a cold though so light training is fine

guys last night i saw something that made me scared and sad to say the least,one of the guys who i regularly chat to at the gym,a father of 3 and a husband,a guy who is there 4 days a week doing cardio and occasionally some weights collapsed in the change room after having a sauna,hes not a smoker,not a heavy drinker and goes nowhere near drugs,i saw him and said hi as i got there,went up and did my weights and 20 minutes cardio and went down to shower,when i got out the shower he was lying on the floor in the change room with people giving him mouth to mouth,the paramedics arrived and got everyomne out the change room so im still not sure if he made it or not this isnt a threadjack but more of a plea for guys to make sure they are in a healthy state before going to gym and for guys to look after themselves more,if i consider the amount of cigarettes drugs and alcohol iv consumed im lucky my heart is still strong and that all my organs are functioning properly,and this all makes me wonder about all the times iv had some flu and gone to the gym regardless not thinking about the stress i put my heart under,iv not drank ANY alcohol or taken ANY form of drug for about a year now but i still smoke cigarettes and last night on my way home i decided that i need to stop smoking i hope i find the strength to do this soon

100% smoking is filthy habit and does nothing for one expects makes them sick and helps us rapidly age...

Can't work out how, someone can go into gym -> do cardio, help grow their lungs then head outside and smoke a cigarett.

After all the years I have stopped, I still feel every day i'm doing a workout i'm helping rid myself of that crap.

00pump - cant "grow" your lungs bud - they are created a certain size and thats that.

jack lets not get technical , i'm talking about the breathing muscles... not trying to change my rib cage.. i'm talking about my diaphragm .. also the more effort you put in the capeleries (spelling) form around the alveoli which will allow for more oxygen..

So back to what i'm saying, by smoking you are reverting this effect and you will not have the same amount of oxygen as a non smoker.. you will also struggle when taking 'deep breaths'

HAhA! i get what you are saying.

I Smoked for years. Smoke Fit the works.
When i stopped i went to see a pulmanologist for a full checkup.
He said your lungs are created a certain size. If they are big you have sporting capabilities not available to everyone. IE You can run because you have big lungs - not you get big lungs from all that running.
Inside that lung-capacity graph there is a triangle which is considered the norm. With my 22 years of smoking i had 2 liters more than the average Joe. The only difference was that last 5% as you exhale where the graph takes a cerious dip in stead of following the gradual decline.
Now i'm just waiting for the ten years to pass for the effects of that last cigarette to clear.
Smoking makes the Alveoli brittle. Eventually the are rock hard and cant get oxygen into your system - they die.

Allen Carr's Easy Way was my salvation!

jack, scary stuff It's been around 10 years that I have stopped too, maybe less.

Allen Carr is brilliant to help stop smoking, I know a few people that currently using his audio tapes after reading his book.. I also used a type of therapy, but more NLP (neuro linguistic programming) I was able to stop biting my nails, stop drugs, stop cigaretts, booze, etc..

However with the current Rugby and the second rate my team has been playing I have adopted the biting nail habit again, and this time I'm making catch up for all the years I have stopped, bhwhahaaaa...

ABC01 wrote: If you have full on flu you would be short of breath and would not even want to train. With flu its better to take 10 days to 2 weeks off. I find it takes me 10 days to get better with or without medication. I ended up in hospital once because i kept training while having flu. My haert rythm went all over the show. Doc said my haert muscle got damaged. You dont want this bud

Think you have a cold though so light training is fine

Completely agree with this train of thought.
Influenza is also typically characterised by joint pain and moderate to severe muscular pain. You myocardium ( heart ) is a muscle. Any strain or stress placed on a muscle during a bout of Infleunza, especially on the myocardium will result in a myocarditis and could cause a myocardial infarction and this is one of the reasons why athlelets suddenly just collapse and die