Should You Train When You’re Sick
Should You Train When You’re Sick? You wake up one morning, and you don’t feel very well. Maybe your sinuses are stuffed up, or perhaps you’ve got a little diarrhea. You’ve scheduled some barbell training or a run for later that day, but you’re thinking about bagging the workout so you can just focus on recovering. Is that the right call? Should you skip an exercise session when you’re feeling sick? Short answer: no, you probably don’t need to skip your workout. When You Should Definitely NOT Train the only times you should skip a workout due to sickness is if you’re running a fever above 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit or you’re regularly vomiting or having diarrhea. "According to sports medicine doctor Lewis G. Maharam, exercising with a fever can cause your already high internal body temperature to increase, which will only make you feel sicker." Isolated bouts of vomiting or diarrhea by themselves typically aren’t reasons for skipping a work...