Training While Sick

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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Hey Drs.,

I apologize if this is a double post (I thought I had made a post related to this a couple of weeks ago but then never saw anything post and no record of it on my end).

In the past, I have avoided training while sick, not because I am worried being sick will affect my training necessarily, but that training my negatively impact my recovery from a cold or whatever.

Both of you seem to train through most everything, so I believe I am missing something, or at the very least, my conceptualization of my recovery from sickness is wrong. Can you help me overcome this mental hurdle?

Many thanks!

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I’m not sure what you’re specifically looking for here.

We think that in general, that the benefits of training (autoregulated, e.g. using RPE) outweigh the risks in the setting of a typical mild illness, when compared to not training.