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Fitness Toolkit: Protocol & Tools to Optimize Physical Health

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Should You Train If You're Sick?

If the symptoms were from the neck up, you could still train. That is, if you were really congested and you had a headache, you could still run. Whereas if it was in your chest and your lungs, you couldn't run./nIf you have a little tiny sniffle, you might be getting sick. Even then, you're cautious in the sense that you're not going to do your typical workout./nWhen you come back from a layoff of any kind, whether or not because of illness or for whatever reason, you do believe that it's not ideal to jump right back into maximal training, and to take one, maybe two weeks of ramping up to the full duration and intensity of workouts.

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