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Sick Again – Very Frustrating

Well, last Thursday I woke up with a sore throat. This progressed into a fever and fluey aches and pains on Friday, and basically I haven’t trained since. This has been the most frustrating 2 – 3 months of my life, insofar as illness impacting training (and just life for that matter) is concerned. It seems I get back into training and I get sick. I think I have had 1 week sick, 2 weeks healthy consistently since the Gold.

So this week I am keeping a food diary. I have a qualified nutritionist across the road from me and I have an appointment to see her Monday next week. Hopefully I can change my diet following some professional advice, to help my body work more effectively – and re-instate a more robust immune system than the ridiculous current one I am stuck with.

I guess the other thing this could be is my 4 – 5 year “sick period” that I get – that after its passed I don’t get sick again for years. That would be great if it was the case, as long as this was my last illness for 2 – 3 years.

I was sick this weekend. I started getting a sniffle on Friday evening, which turned into a semi cold on Saturday and full stregth running nose, head ache and sore throat Sunday. Now it is Monday and I am starting to feel a little better.

On the weekend though, when thinking about the training sessions I was missing, I wondered if there was any training I could be doing while ill. Obviously I didn’t want to do anything too strenuous or in the water, however I was thinking about a stretching session, or an abs and core training session.

In the end, the flu symptoms beat all considerations of exercise though. I had little energy to do anything other than read a book. I only got out of bed to go down and get something to eat. Anything else was just too much.

I’d love to hear if anyone else has thoughts on training and illness though. What do you do and does it help/hinder your recovery?

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