Strength training during illness with acute respiratory infections, sore throat or flu

We have one guy in our club - a newcomer, but an ardent fan of “iron sports”. It’s always interesting to watch young people, how they, with sparkling eyes and full of enthusiasm, come to the gym for the first time and, with triple zeal, begin to lift everything that catches their eye. Good zeal and proper internal motivation are, of course, very good, but the only question is: how long will it last? This enthusiasm...

The guy about whom this story is about had more than enough enthusiasm! He always swayed stubbornly, energetically, and left the gym only when he was already thrown out of there... On the one hand, this is of course good, but this is what happened one day:

So our boy comes to the next training session, and snot is running out of his nose in streams... His eyes are red, watery, he is constantly sneezing, coughing and won’t let go of his handkerchief... We are like: “What happened?” - and he said: he’s sick. We told him: “So what are you up to?” To which he gave us a half-hour lecture:

1. about motivation,
2. about skipping workouts,
3. about progress in training,
4. and about the fact that illness is not a reason to miss class...

Of course, we listened to him, and then kicked him out of the hall with the words: “go home for treatment!”, but why? Yes, because training while sick is not only stupid, but also dangerous! Health and bodybuilding are closely related! If you feel unwell, heavy loads are out of the question! Especially with sub-limit weights! Now let's explain why...

Having developed the flu, sore throat or acute respiratory infection, your body is seriously weakened by the disease, you cannot breathe normally, even if you do not have a temperature - you most likely have high blood pressure (you just don’t feel it) with all the ensuing consequences, which still will jump more when you start lifting weights. Difficulty breathing makes this even worse. It turns out: during physical exercise in the gym, training in this state, you deal a crushing blow to your heart and circulatory system, which, even in a healthy state, under similar influences, experience excessive stress.

Another aspect of the issue is social in nature. By working in a group, you endanger the people around you. Acute respiratory infections, sore throat, flu, bronchitis are diseases transmitted by airborne droplets, so you may well infect someone. Secondly, weakened to a significant extent by the above symptoms, you may simply not be able to hold a balanced projectile and, in addition, injure someone.

That is why, from the point of view of your own self-preservation, and from the point of view of collective safety, and in general, simply out of respect for the surrounding comrades in “iron sports,” never train when you feel unwell, because this, as you understand, is a clear and comprehensive evil!

I wish you positive muscle growth, and never get sick!