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Should you exercise when you’re sick?For some sicknesses, exercise is a great prescription, for others, not so much. These helpful tips will teach you when to exercise and when to stay home this winter.
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• Rest if it’s below the neck. If you have symptoms from the neck up — a stuffy nose or sore throat — it’s probably just a rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. But when you start to feel achy, or develop a fever, diarrhea, swollen glands, or chest congestion, it’s time to lay off the exercise completely. You most likely have the flu or a chest cold, which Nieman says should keep you at home until all your symptoms have disappeared.

• Slow down. You should still take it easy, even if you’re just suffering from a runny nose. “You may have just taken a medication that dried up your sniffles and you start to feel better,” he says. “But pushing it too hard can make your illness more severe.” Stick with a 45-minute walk and save the heavy-duty run or bike ride for when you’re feeling better.

• Get back up to speed gradually. The flu can keep you out of the exercise loop for a week or more, so don’t hit the ground running as soon as you feel better. “When your fever’s gone and the worst of the symptoms are pretty much gone, just take an easy walk and see how you respond,” says Nieman. After a symptom-free week of moderate exercise, start easing back into your routine until you’re back to where you were before you got sick.
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Should you exercise when you’re sick?
For some sicknesses, exercise is a great prescription, for others, not so much. These helpful tips will teach you when to exercise and when to stay home this winter.

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• Rest if it’s below the neck. If you have symptoms from the neck up — a stuffy nose or sore throat — it’s probably just a rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. But when you start to feel achy, or develop a fever, diarrhea, swollen glands, or chest congestion, it’s time to lay off the exercise completely. You most likely have the flu or a chest cold, which Nieman says should keep you at home until all your symptoms have disappeared.

• Slow down. You should still take it easy, even if you’re just suffering from a runny nose. “You may have just taken a medication that dried up your sniffles and you start to feel better,” he says. “But pushing it too hard can make your illness more severe.” Stick with a 45-minute walk and save the heavy-duty run or bike ride for when you’re feeling better.

• Get back up to speed gradually. The flu can keep you out of the exercise loop for a week or more, so don’t hit the ground running as soon as you feel better. “When your fever’s gone and the worst of the symptoms are pretty much gone, just take an easy walk and see how you respond,” says Nieman. After a symptom-free week of moderate exercise, start easing back into your routine until you’re back to where you were before you got sick.

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