Training with a cold or flu....

[angryshinai]

Im just curious to see how many people train when they are sick with a cold or flu. Tonight i had planned on going to training but ive got such a bad headache that i just couldnt handle it. I would attend training to watch but its a 2 hour round trip for me and im comfy with the central heating and lots of cups of tea...

[aru-ma]

Im just curious to see how many people train when they are sick with a cold or flu. Tonight i had planned on going to training but ive got such a bad headache that i just couldnt handle it. I would attend training to watch but its a 2 hour round trip for me and im comfy with the central heating and lots of cups of tea...

Depending on how sick I am I either go and watch,or stay home. if your head throbing like a time bomb just waiting to blow I suggest you stay home. but if you can stand it go and train/watch.

I'm guessing its the warm cup of tea rather than your flu and 2 hour round trip is what's holding you :p

[emitbrownne]

Sickness rarely gets me.. but I am the accident king. I fall on my backside all he time... and my ankles forever twist.

However I did train last night,whilst feeling like cr@p with a sore throat.
I have a very loud Kiai, and by the end of the night my throat was rasping.
(woke up this morning sounding like Barry White)

Anyway.. If ill I will not train or watch (last night it didnt hit me until I got to the Dojo). I do not believe its fair on my fellow students, to transmit my infections.

If I'm injured I will watch.

If I'm OK I will try and do Kendo.

[qpuppy]

Im just curious to see how many people train when they are sick with a cold or flu. Tonight i had planned on going to training but ive got such a bad headache that i just couldnt handle it. I would attend training to watch but its a 2 hour round trip for me and im comfy with the central heating and lots of cups of tea...

OOOOOOOOoooooo.. is that what happen to you today... was wondering how come you didnt come training when you said you are coming.... well anyway... you going for your grading?... if so.. see you on Saturday..... :cool2:

[Charlie]

Sometimes you can train through a cold; that is, you go, get a good sweat, replenish the fluids and get to bed and you'll wake up much healed. But not the flu! With the flu you need to get yer butt in bed.

[mingshi]

Sometimes you can train through a cold
Arrgh, that's what I thought too, but ended up missing a taikai 3 days after... because I was sooooo sick after a good sweat (and I still think the dojo is a hospital, you get better just by being inside!!) ... I was about to fight be can't even pick up bogu from my room that morning. So ended up watching people and blowing my nose at the spectator stand. If I fight I'd probably send everyone there some virus!

BTW What's the difference between a cold and a flu? :confused:

[Neil Gendzwill]

BTW What's the difference between a cold and a flu?
They're different viruses. A cold you can usually live with and train through. Influenza is often accompanied by nausea, diarrhea, muscle ache and weakness. Flu kills thousands of people every year, SARS is a piker by comparison.

Most of the time if I'm feeling mildly ill, I'll train through it and feel better. But if you have a flu hard activity will probably not make you feel better and may make things worse - you need to rest.

[Charlie]

Arrgh, that's what I thought too, but ended up missing a taikai 3 days after... because I was sooooo sick after a good sweat (and I still think the dojo is a hospital, you get better just by being inside!!) ... I was about to fight be can't even pick up bogu from my room that morning. So ended up watching people and blowing my nose at the spectator stand. If I fight I'd probably send everyone there some virus!


Whoa! That was some kind of killer cold. Maybe it was something more serious. Luckily (makes Sign of the Cross) I haven't had anything that bad in a long while!

I think a good golden rule is: dizziness or nausea and you should stop practicing.

[JSchmidt]

If I'm up and can move around, I'll practice and usually feel better afterwards...but then usually, the flu's I get only lasts about 2 days.

Jakob

[angryshinai]

Ok ive had 8 cups green tea, 2 panadol, 14 hours sleep and im feeling heaps better.
As for the grading good luck to aru-ma, qpuppy and anyone else grading in the VKR tommorow.... My turn next time around :)

[KATSUJIN]

hmmm.... when i have a cold i try training...the thing is my blocked nose gets cleared and the next day i am fine.....but in flu....i go and watch
unless i am very sick

[nollaig]

I have asthma so when I have a head cold training is Very difficult
but I was told that when you train hard with something like a chest infection you can develop excresise induced asthma....even if you have no chest complaint to begin with

Can anyone confirm this for me please.?

I have trained a a cold off by sweating it out but its murder!!

couldn't do a proper days work the next day at all
I was a bit ashamed about slacking off...
so I try not to do that to my self

kendo seems to be something that you must have develop a specific mind set
where you are encouraged to do your best in life but since your employer is handing you over good money to work for them
I feel if you need to choose between a good days work or a good training session
you should choose work
Kendo will always be there at many levels
so even going to training and not putting on bogu and helping the beginners for a full evening is kendo

my €0.02 (euro) worth
Nollaig

[swrdply400mrela]

Well I just went to practice last night with a cold. It was no picnic. I felt slow and couldn't stop coughing. It was also kinda hard to cover my cough with my men on. I just sorta put my kote in front the men and turned away, but somehow that didn't feel right.

[oldenhaller]

Well I just went to practice last night with a cold. It was no picnic. I felt slow and couldn't stop coughing. It was also kinda hard to cover my cough with my men on. I just sorta put my kote in front the men and turned away, but somehow that didn't feel right.

I dont think it is a good thing to attend keiko with an infection in your system.
I have two main reasons:

1) Your heart can get damaged because of the stress put on it. There can be small scars in the muscle tissue that can seriously injure you when you get old. If you are unlucky you can have a heart problem even at young age.

2) You risk infecting other people. Because of this risk, it is not a good idea to attend keiko even just to observe the keiko since you still risk infecting the people in the dojo. Better stay at home and get well. Thats showing respect to you friends in the dojo.

When you feel that you are tired even if you are fully rested, its usually a good sign of an infection in your body.

[AlexM]

I try to go to practice no matter what. Give myself a good sweat to "burn" it off.

The first time I did this I arrived at practice with a slight cold which included a very mild fever. I hadn't planned on practicing really, I had just delivered shinai for the first class of the semester. But sensei told me to come practice in order to just "burn off" whatever was bothering me. Now, it should be noted that my sensei is a doctor... of veterinary medecine... so all medical advice he gives me is taken with a grain of salt.

Anyway, I practiced hard, got a good sweat going and basically did what I was supposed to. I got back home took my temperature and to my utter disgust saw that it had gone up by quite a few degrees.

I got up the next morning though and my cold was gone, dead, destroyed... terminated.

From that point on whenever I get sick I go to practice and sweat alot. It seems to work.

[Charlie]

Careful, Alex. Your sensei will have you spayed next!

:tongue:

[AlexM]

Careful, Alex. Your sensei will have you spayed next!

:tongue:

Don't joke about that. A bunch of us stoped by his clinic one morning after practice (we were in the neighbourhood). He saw us, said hello, and then told us about the special they were having on neuterings... :eek:

Needless to say we all declined the offer and left in a hurry.

Do you think his offer had anything to do with the fact that his daughter practices with us? :scared:

[Charlie]

LOL! I'm chuckling over here in my cube, much to the amusement of my co-workers.