Training problem...

[nos]

Hi, I was cold on Sunday and yesterday I woke up with flu symptoms.

Currently I train well:

Monday: Rest
Tuesday: Training
Wednesday: Training
Thursday: Training
Friday: Rest
Saturday: Training
Sunday: Free route


The question is that today I have to train Z2+Z3, but I'm still something wrong...I can change the today for the Friday and if I'm better start tomorrow?.

This is my week of recovery in my training plan.


Regards .

 

[fossyant]

Flu symptoms = don't ride. Head cold = ride.

If it is flu you could damage your heart.

 

[nos]

I have flu symptoms but no fever...

 

[fossyant]

That's your choice. I'd take it easy and if you must go out, just do a steady ride.

 

[Travs]

Flu symptoms and cold symptoms are broadly similar. An old wive's tale is the £10 test. If someone has flu and is laid-up on the sofa, drop a £10 near them. If they get up to pick it up, they don't have flu. However, this can be expensive (and no, is not a serious test but demonstrative of colds commonly being referred to as flu).

As no-one should want to reliably dispense with medical advice on the basis of here, I'd echo Fossyant's opinino and "listen to your body". If you feel ok, go out and take it steady but if you go too hard and put yourself in bed for a few days, you'll feel worse and impact your training plan even more.

 

[ayceejay]

Training, especially in winter is hard on the immune system making you susceptible to colds and flu, continuing to train after you get a serious cold or flu could lead to a long period of recovery off the bike. Far better to rest for a couple of days now rather than a week or two later on in the season.

 

[nos]

Following their advices...I will rest. I hope to improve soon .

 

[ColinJ]

I once ignored health warnings like those above and went out on my bike before I was fully recovered from illness. I ended up unconscious at the side of the road. I take such warnings more seriously now ...!

 

[nos]

I'll stay home to the heat and drinking orange juice to increase vitamin C.

At least this week is recovery...so maybe this be good.

I don't want end up unconscious with my MTB in the road .

 

[blazed]

I'll stay home to the heat and drinking orange juice to increase vitamin C.

At least this week is recovery...so maybe this be good.

I don't want end up unconscious with my MTB in the road .

Consuming vitamin c will do nothing for your cold/flu. How do people still walk around believing stuff like this? Do people just hear things and take it as gospel without researching real peer reviewed studies?

 

[Tin Pot]

Consuming vitamin c will do nothing for your cold/flu. How do people still walk around believing stuff like this? Do people just hear things and take it as gospel without researching real peer reviewed studies?

Not entirely true:
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/coldsandflu/Pages/Preventionandcure.aspx

People will stop relying on vitamin C shortly after they realise that being wet and cold doesn't cause illness.

Which will be never!

 

[Citius]

Do people just hear things and take it as gospel without researching real peer reviewed studies?

Good point, well made. A bit like us believing your own claims of cycling performance, without asking for proof (which we have asked for, many times).

 

[ayceejay]

If the immune system is compromised then you are more susceptible to infection, getting wet and cold will do this as will over training. The benefits of vitamin C are more effective as part of a varied diet that includes fruit and veg rather than as a supplement.

 

[PK99]

Not entirely true:
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/coldsandflu/Pages/Preventionandcure.aspx

People will stop relying on vitamin C shortly after they realise that being wet and cold doesn't cause illness.

Which will be never!

useful to quote the relevant section from the link:

Can vitamin C stop a cold?
"Research has found no evidence that vitamin C prevents colds," says Dr Hasmukh Joshi, vice-chair of the Royal College of GPs.

In 2013, an updated review of studies into vitamin C and the common cold concluded that "regular ingestion of vitamin C had no effect on common cold incidence in the ordinary population".

The review results suggested that vitamin C might help prevent colds in people exposed to short periods of intense physical activity, such as marathon runners or skiers, but not in the general population.

A daily dose of vitamin C did slightly reduce the length and severity of colds in the ordinary population.

When it comes to flu, one person in three believes that taking vitamin C can cure the flu virus. It can’t.

"Studies found that vitamin C offers a very, very limited benefit," says Dr Joshi. "I wouldn't recommend it."


ie for cyclists in training there may be some benefit

Also:

Does getting cold or wet cause colds?
The only thing that can cause a cold or flu is a cold or flu virus. Getting cold or wet won’t give you a cold. However, if you are already carrying the virus in your nose, it might allow symptoms to develop.

A study at the Common Cold Centre in Cardiff found that people who chilled their feet in cold water for 20 minutes were twice as likely to develop a cold as those who didn't chill their feet.

The authors suggest that this is because some people carry cold viruses without having symptoms. Getting chilled causes blood vessels in the nose to constrict, affecting the defences in the nose and making it easier for the virus to replicate.

"Getting a cold from going out in the cold or after washing your hair is a myth," says Dr Joshi. "Colds are common. If the virus is already there and then you go out with wet hair and develop symptoms, it's common to think that is what caused it."

Again, relevant to winter cycling

 

[blazed]

Any effects vitamin c could have on preventing a cold are extremely small. Stuides show little to no evidence, but all the evidence is related to prevention.

One things for sure, if you already have a cold or flu no amount of vitamin c will help get rid of it.