coming down off exercise

Now, for starters, let's just say that I'll never be a tri gal, my exercise routines are much lighter.

Okay, I try to walk 2-3 times a week, a mile a day. I go to the gym theoretically 3 times a week, but more like 1 time a week, plus spin class about 2x a week plus bike rides. A nice ride for me is between 20-60 miles, and we do hills. So now you have an idea of my routine.

I got sick last week, a pretty tough bug, maybe the flu. Fever, cough, congestion, inflammation, and it knocked me on my back.

So, this started Wednesday Evening, but by saturday, i started feeling pains deep in my big muscles, just like i used to get from Fibromyalgia many years ago. (I'd been asymptomatic ever since I started my exercise program)

So Sunday, I got on my bike even though I still felt bad, throat tight and sore, nose still going like a fountain... because my legs were starting to ache.

The bike ride made me feel better, and today i walked a mile (and it felt good)
even though i'm still coughing and congested.

IT JUST TOOK 3 days to send me back to my pre-exercise condition????

thoughts?

I think you'll bounce back. Colds can be nasty. My last one took me out for two weeks.

Mimi, I've found that the older I get, the longer it takes me to recover from both exercise and being sick. Last winter I had bronchitis in Feb. and it was the end of March before I felt myself. Also, I think it could be related to the fibro.
Try the walking before you do anything on the bike or spin; I've set myself back too many times than I care to remember by trying to get out on the bike before I should have.

Robyn

In ballet we used to say that for every day of class you missed, it took two to get back to where you'd been before you missed. Just a saying, but that seemed to be pretty much true to all of us. That has not been the case for me with cycling, where I find I can miss more time with less setback. I'm guessing it's because of the precision and control that ballet required. Of course I feel it if I've been off the bike for several weeks--slower, more sluggish--but the rebound isn't nearly as bad as it was in dance.

I've been doing a boot camp for the last 3 months. We took one week off at the first of January. When I came back, I was RARING to go, and everything seemed so easy (I only worked out a little on the off week).

I think you're just still whipped by the virus. It takes a long time for some of them to clear. I had one a few years ago and I was bedbound for 10 days--no cold symptoms, just profound lethargy and a fever. As soon as it was over, it was over, and I was fine.

You'll come back. Keep trying. Feel better.

Karen

I thought Mimi was saying she was surprised at her quick recovery...

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Originally Posted by Tuckervill

I've been doing a boot camp for the last 3 months. We took one week off at the first of January. When I came back, I was RARING to go, and everything seemed so easy (I only worked out a little on the off week).

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Boot Camp? Me, too. I did 3 weeks before Xmas, took off for two weeks and was raring to go on the return. I did nothing but sit in a car and drive or heave moving boxes around.

Though I have to say today we were alll begging for wall sits for recovery time. Huge cardio day.

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Originally Posted by SadieKate

Boot Camp? Me, too. I did 3 weeks before Xmas, took off for two weeks and was raring to go on the return. I did nothing but sit in a car and drive or heave moving boxes around.

Though I have to say today we were alll begging for wall sits for recovery time. Huge cardio day.

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Yes, it's amazing what can seem "easy" with the proper perspective. :)

I'm really liking it.

Karen

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Originally Posted by salsabike

I thought Mimi was saying she was surprised at her quick recovery...

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I thought that at first, too. We'll let Mimi clarify.

Karen

No, I wasn't pleased with my quick recovery. I was disturbed by the quick return of symptoms (deep muscle pain) that I haven't felt for years.

I feel like today I have all my strength back, and the virus is now down to a stupid cough, but last night I took tylenol for pain before I went to bed, because my big muscles were hurting.

Tonight I'm going to the gym. The issue is not whether or not I'm going to overdo it, it's HOW CLOSE I AM to where I was before I ever started getting healthy.

It could be the virus causing the pain, too. Wicked virus. grrr.

Karen

hopefully that's all it is. I can deal with that. Thanks.

m