ArnoldsProtege

Well, this is more of a rant than anything... I had been making great gains in the gym, going steadilly 5 times a week for 2 and a half months, seeing amazing changes, going up each week, FINALLY counting my macros and charting EVERYTHING i did in the gym.. and then it struck... SICKNESS!

I practically broke my wrist on the weekend (xrays are pending) and NOW I have just been diagnosed with PNEMONIA! I have been coughing, tired, drained, fevered and completely out of it... Ive been held out of working out for almost a week now and I cant stand it! lol im also hacking up a lung (oddly, the gym bothers me more..) I just want to get this off my chest cuz its bothering me ALOT. Have any of you been in a situation like this? where your FINALLY getting in a groove and BAM... your screwed?

Age:18
Height: 5'10 1/2
Weight(work in progress): 210 LB

DOMS

Seeing how this seems to be the first time this has happened to you, you can take solace in the fact that it will happen again. And again. And some more.

It's perfectly naturally. The details may vary, but this happens to everyone that works out for longer than a New Years "resolution".

Take the time to do other things. Like perfect your diet even more or study up on some aspect of weight training. Or both.

Just make sure you give yourself time enough to heal.

Yanick

I dunno about the wrist injury, but the pneumonia could have been because you were begin to reach a state of overtraining. 2.5 months straight of hard lifting will catch up with you sooner or later. Take your antibiotics, drink plenty of fluids and try to keep your calories high even if it means eating some crap food. If you're anything like me when you're sick, food is the last thing you want to look at.

Remember to run the full course of the antibiotics too many people stop when they feel better and have a relapse of the illness. If its a 10 day course finish it off, even if you feel great by day 5. Fluids are also very important, as is bedrest. Some walking around is fine, and will even help with expectoration of secretions, but don't go doing sprints or lifting until you're better.

"...we have to remember that training is a complicated dance of stimuli and response. Our goal is to understand how to manipulate the stimuli in order to evoke the responses we desire." -Nathan J. Polenchek

ArnoldsProtege

ahh i think i know what did me in.. we were playing a nice game of ball hockey about a week ago on the coldest night of the year (smart, i know). Anyway, we played hard for a good 3 hours, and for the final game, i had to be the goalie. I was standing still, soaking in cold sweat while my extremities felt like they were gonna fall off.

Anyways, good to know that others have been where ive been. Um.. quick question: Should I get back into it business as usual and lift exactly where I stopped off? Or should I give it a week or so of full body, less volume just to ease back into it. I was training really hard...

Age:18
Height: 5'10 1/2
Weight(work in progress): 210 LB

Yanick

No reason to jump right back into it. You'll still be a bit immunocompromised even when you feel fine so a week of some lower volume, lower intensity stuff just to ease into it is probably best.

"...we have to remember that training is a complicated dance of stimuli and response. Our goal is to understand how to manipulate the stimuli in order to evoke the responses we desire." -Nathan J. Polenchek

Seanp156

Haha, that's very true for me as well... When I'm sick I do NOT want to eat... I often end up eating 2, 3 times a day MAX... Even at that it's usually pop-tarts, apple juice, and sugary cereal.

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RasPlasch

This makes me feel better that I'm not the only one going through this. I have been sick for 7 days now with flu like symtoms. It has been hard not being able to go to the gym. Just when I thought I was getting better I woke up with infections in both of my eyes. Seems like I'm never going to get back to the gym. I've lost several pounds and just today my mom said to me "Geeze it looks like you have lost some muscle". I hope shes just kidding. I just hate having no appetite and always forcing myself to eat when I don't want to.

dontchaknow

even though I'm still learning, you sound just like me when I was your age but IMO, working out is a lifestyle, not just hitting the gym. eating right, getting enough sleep, listening to your body, and lifting all together equals results. just because you can't lift, you can still be productive by improving your diet, reading up on new lifts, thinking about changes you want to make about your current lifts and resting up in general.

barbell boy

yea i know exactly how you feel, ive been trainig real hard the last couple months, weights, cardio, martial arts basically everything and now i am gonna have to take at least two weeks off due to illness, not very happy

The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle.

ArnoldsProtege

ahh its great to know im in the same boat with a bunch of sickies! (you guys arent contagious, i hope).

dontchaknow, that is excellent advice. I HAVE been eating right, and actually it worked out well because one of my goals is fat loss lol. It seems that just this week that ive missed i finally lost my gal of 5 lbs for march 1st that I missed (thats not my overal goal.. just a mini one i like to set It seems my body needed this week of restoration to sort of catch its breath, and I actually see better results lol. My pnemonia is almost better (im still wheezing and coughing, but its getting there..energy levels are great.) but my wrist is STILL effed up... im thinkin its time for an X ray lol. My goal is to be back in the gym by this friday for a weekend of rehab and to remind my muscles to not get accustumed to just chilling... they gotta get their ass kicked.

Age:18
Height: 5'10 1/2
Weight(work in progress): 210 LB

MZiggy

its happened to me a number of times.. i had just got into a good program when i started college and then i got paralyzed for a week from the waist down. stopped liftin..but trust once you get back after that you never want to stop again..recently i tore my mcl and i still havent gotten back into my leg routine completely so its killin me

TODD2002

iam getting back into the gym after back surgery. i don't know if i will ever be able to lift like i did before the injury. i know how it feels to not be able to get into the gym.