Ask the Expert: Working out with the flu

Flu season has been in full force this season. Question is, should you workout when your you’re sick with the cold or flu?

[millionsdaily]

I’ve been sick for 7-8 days currently, I worked out throughout this week and I feel it has prolonged my symptoms. If you have symptoms of the flu, covid or a serve cold I wouldn’t workout until the symptoms clear up. I know it’s hard to stop working out but this guy is correct it’s not fair to others and it’s important to keep your immune system focused on fighting off the illness. Adding working out on top of your illness stresses the immune system taking focus away from recovering from your illness. This is from my personal experience and my own opinion, just to be clear I’m unsure of the facts :)

[gothicradler]

This guy isn’t an expert just a dude who has a gym

[DonnaAgrinsonis]

The question should only be should u work out when sick. A LOT of folks have home gyms🤨

[pstalouis]

The way the white reporter cut the black reporter off at the beginning

[mariaflesher]

Intelligent response and professional health safety when contagious.. especially if one ha auto immune..

[tjfSIM]

Honestly, people who say "I'm powering through this cold" have no idea what they're talking about. And I assume what they're actually talking about here is a cold, and not influenza. If you have the latter, you won't want to get out of bed for days, let alone exercise. Fighting a virus takes up a huge amount of resources, fluids, nutrition, and rest. When you exercise, you sweat and lose water, and you use up energy reserves - why anyone would think that's a good idea is beyond me.

[VK]

Now with the dislike button censored by youtube I don't know what people think. Only 100 likes from a video from 2017. How do I know if there was 1000 dislikes before? This site is trash

[dominiclane]

I have had the flu for a week now, going to go back tommorow, still got the snivels and feeling down still

[bburd-jtos]

If you can workout, you don’t have the flu

[TraPortal]

I feel like I got sick and on the first day decided to take a powerful preworkout and workout for one hour with smaller intensity. Let’s see if it helps