Just started, Got sick, question

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hello,

I bought Strength and Conditioning and started this past Monday, had a great workout and my estimated RPE’s were pretty accurate, maybe low balled it to be safe…

Anyways, was scheduled to do Wednesday session and caught mother load of all colds from my daughter. I was gonna still lift but had fever and felt like crap, finally feeling better today. Should I just wait till Monday and restart from day one, maybe lowering poundages to account for 2 days barely eating?

Alternatively, should I pick up from where I left off and do 2nd lifting day tomorrow and then 3rd day on Monday and pretend it’s weekend and start week 2 on Thursday until it catches up again?

Thanks,

Kevin

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Hi Kevin,
Sorry to hear you got sick! So in this case, it really doesn’t matter, and I think I’d choose an option that does 2 things-gets you a training session this weekend and leaves you confident about the plan next week (Meaning that is trying to adjust this is going to kind of add that small layer of scheduling stress, don’t add that.) So your option of training tomorrow and then carrying on is just fine and no adjustments are needed to the percentages. Or you can do day 2 tomorrow and then re-start week 1 next week and feel right on track again.