Hello
Is there a reason to worry about long term or permanent damage to endurance capacity after recovering from covid?
I play underwater hockey and some players report significant low apnea and endurance abillities following covid recovery, even 6 months after they have recovered. Players aged 20yo - 30yo that had it with mild symptoms, nothing crazy.
What do you think about it?
Thanks
I don’t know. Post-viral syndromes are common and can take a while to recover from.
With that said, I do not see the point of spending time worrying about the idea of “permanent damage”. Aside from continuing to train and autoregulating based on individual tolerance/symptoms, there is nothing else that could be done for such a thing anyway, should it occur.
Thanks for the input 
I’m in this boat as well. I’m 39 years old and had pretty mild covid symptoms 6 weeks ago. I was in great condition and my training was going well when I got sick, and I only tried to take a week off. But since getting better I can’t train without getting light headed and having very unpleasant chest “sensations”. My lungs still feel pretty bad too, and I feel destroyed after what was just an easy warmup 6 weeks ago. I’m still working with the cardiologist to rule out potential complications, but hopefully I’ll get the green light to train again soon.
Training again will be interesting. My muscular strength feels good but my conditioning feels like I’m a smoker who’s never worked out in my life. I can’t even walk very fast. I guess I’ll focus more on strength until my heart and lungs come back.