I have a cold to train or not to train that is the question.
I am rather obsessed with lifting weights. It wasn’t always this way. Actually for 20 years after leaving the Marine Corps I didn’t do to much of anything. I like to say I was resting. A year and a half ago I freaked out for several reasons but one of them was the fact that I was gonna have to go to specialty shops to get clothes. I then basically did the Abs Diet slightly modified with a bigger emphasis on cardio. I went from a 42 inch waiste to 32 inch droping 50 lbs.
It took about 6 months to get down in weight then I began really lifting. I did not like it at first. How could a person enjoy driving home the fact that you let yourself slide to extreme weakness? I started with low weights and felt physically beat after each of those early workouts. There were muscles I not only never used but that I never knew I had and they were SORE. Now I go 5 days a week and only regret that I do not have better gains (this is based on looks not weight lifted, reps, or sets all went up). I love the challenge of going daily and pushing myself.
It is a good life but not yesterday and I believe not today for I am sick. Now I have tried it both ways. Suck it up and go in to workout and hope it don’t get worse (was ok once & prolonged the illness the other time) or just rest and get well (missed a week but was healed from what I take was the ebola virus though everyone else said it was simply the flu). I am deciding just rest a day or two for I feel on the mend and as long as my diet is normal what is there to fear? I was wondering what others do when struck with a pretty hefty cold/flu/fever? I suppose there is no wrong answer but I feel a bit guilty.
