Thread: Should I proceed as planned

You were only sick for four days (the killer flu I've been hearing about, I suppose). Yeah, the one nobody says much about. Pretty high fever, chills and aches, sucks all your energy so just about all your do is sleep. Starts as a seeming cold with sinus congestion, runny nose, and seems to settle into the body zapper flu, short duration, 2-4 days, but intense illness. Fiend of mine commented on another board about this flu. I agree, its more viscious than many milder influenza viruses.

So let's think about this a bit..

You are energy depleted from your rapid but intense illness, so it makes sense to go slow for a few days, make sure you get your rest, eat right, and let yourself recover fullly. I'm a big believer in antioxidants, especially vitamin C. Take your vitamins. Rehydrate yourself.

Instead of jumping right back into gym cardio split, give yousrself a few days of brisk walks, enough to speed up your heart without taxing your energy depleted remaining reserves.

Once you recoup, you should ease back into your routine, and work back up to the resistance loads you were using previous to your illness.

Can you take your fat cutting supps? Sure, but give your body a few days to get its metabolic house in order, storing glycogen, while you get your rest, with the exception of walking. The cortisol, recovery taxing lifting routines should wait just a day a or two, because you got your butt kicked pretty good and the stress of launching right back into your rourtine before you're fully recovered doesn't make much sense, does it?

You might take a look at your program and ask yourself if you have enough rest days built into your long term program. One a month, take a few days off, instead of one or two. Every six months, take a week off. That doesn't mean stop and vegetate on the couch. It means you take brisk walks, hikes, bike rides, walk the dog, play a little little sports, too. Its a break from the heavy anerobic exercise that you want. Gives the CNS a rest and revives enthusiasm for strength training workouts.

Hope this answers your questions.