posted Wed, 11/01/2023 - 07:42
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Four weeks into my current cycle I had a mild foot injury that took about a week to heal and I couldn’t walk, so I missed a gym week.
The next day after my foot is well enough I can walk, I wake up miserably sick with covid. I stopped everything from my cycle and I am letting my test drop back down to TRT levels. I feel really defeated and not being in the gym is a mentally rough.
Do I need to give myself a few weeks off before starting back up again or should I go right back into my cycle once I am back to normal?
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parsons23As long as your not running a fever and breathing doesn't feel compromised I would do about 1 quarter of what you used to do to help maintain muscle. After 3-4 weeks as long as feeling 100% go back at it. Numerous studies have shown light exercise during a viral infection speeds recovery. Rest, vitamin C and hydrate. Hope you feel better soon bro.
On the bright side you didn't tear a tendon/ligament then your potentially looking at surgery and up to a year before your 100%. Def could always be worse.
I would postpone the cycle until you’re at 100% health. So you cycled one month+ you’ll need to pct for another which will allow some time you to recover as well as get consistent in the gym again. Start back up in two months. Also, if you’re able, i fast for a few days when I have ailments like that. Had pneumonia in 2015 and fasted for 3 days. Usually, when I used to get a cold it would always turn to bronchitis and I would fill up with congestion for weeks. Since I started fasting I hardly get sick and on top of that, I have zero congestion altogether. Also had Covid 3 times with blood work as proof and I had no symptoms other than slight pain in my damaged areas like shoulder, groin etc. I went for blood work for surgeries and they determined I had Covid but it wasn’t showing up on swab tests so they had to delay the surgeries on both occasions.
Fasting for me has been very effective for preventive illnesses and overall health.
I had Covid two weeks ago, only missed one gym day. Dragged ass the following day, but made it through my workout. Felt better every day after that. I feel forcing myself back to the gym sped up my recovery. If I would have sat around, I feel I would have been sick for the rest of the week
Now everybody else at the gym probably has covid
Yeah I keep thinking I only got sick since I had that week off from the gym. I have snot running down my face, so not sure they would appreciate me working out like this.
Yeah, I can understand that. Luckily, I didn’t have a runny nose. I had the worst body aches and vertigo. Working out definitely made me feel better though. Try some push ups and things you can do at home. Try to stay as active as you can. Get well soon, Bro!
It always feels the worst in the moment. Last year I got Covid on cycle shut me down for two weeks. I did very light walking and some BW stuff at home just to tell myself I did something but I kept up with my test only cycle and went back to the gym and pulled a hamstring… sucked so I had to work around that. I remember feeling exactly as you wrote. But it does pass and you realize 4 weeks is about 8% of a total training year. Take care of yourself and you’ll be back in no time.
I tore a hamstring last year doing deads not warming up properly, at the time I was gutted as instantly I knew that was 8 weeks not being able to train that exercise and losing most of what I had built up. Figured oh well - there are loads of other exercises I can now focus on. It literally buggered up all the other lifts too as you use hams so much to stabilise yourself via your legs, you just don't realise it until its broken lol
Bro that sucks I just pulled mine but yes even cable row was iffy at best. I don’t really do conventional deadlift anymore. Switched to dumbbell straight legs. I have built up what feels like some stability back there but honestly I’m afraid to dead heavy because when that shit happens man it hurt so bad.
Yeh when it went it was more of a 'Bang' than a pop, didn't hurt too bad at first as its more the shock factor setting in. After an hour though it really started, figured I should go to hospital in case it was a full tear and get it x-rayed and sitting on it in the car I was screaming in pain. Hospital is only a mile down the road otherwise I wouldn't of been able to suffer it for longer.
What I did learn from this experience is NEVER put a compression bandage around an injury like that or you will experience the most excruciating pain ever, it seamed to either trap or stop all the swelling and man it was utter hell. Don't try to stop the inflammation and healing process, thats why NSAID's are counterproductive when dealing with injuries and the site needs to inflame first. Its debateable whether to even ice an injury as that slows/stops blood flow to the area which it needs.
Wow I’m sorry you went through all that. Do any of the anabolics increase recovery of injury? I know people like Deca for joint stuff.
Youre not the first so youre not defeated. Few weeks to get health back on top and do it again.
Four weeks in isn't to bad. I have been 13 wks into a prep and have had wheels fall off the bus which is really depressing. I wouldn't jump right back into cycle. Your body especially CNS will still be under alot of stress from going through all that and recovering. I would ease back into the gym and get a few weeks back under the weights until starting up again.
You hit the nail on the head. Your system is trying to recover so no need to jump back into gym. Let the body's immune system do its thing, take vitamins, drink alot of water, rest well and maybe something light in the gym to get circulation going a little bit. Sauna would probably help also. No way in hell if I had covid would I even attempt to go hard in gym. Focus would be off.
Wow 13 weeks into a prep would be really rough. I usually never get sick like this, so covid really caught me offguard. Trying to force food right now is the hardest. Nothing even tastes right.
It took me nearly a year to get my taste back from covid. Wife started to complain about my cooking because I was always over seasoning everything so it would have at least some taste to me.
That finally came back did it?!! I lost my sense of taste & smell during the last bout of Covid and I began to get really worried about it towards the end - a sense of taste is one of those very enjoyable things we have in life that you don't appreciate till its gone, makes eating totally boring and unenjoyable. Literally couldn't train for 2 weeks, no illness has ever managed to keep me away from the weights apart from covid.