I’m in between LV General Base 1 and 2. Trouble is I got sick and am taking about 10 days off. When I get back I feel like I’ll be starting over. Should I repeat General Base 1, add another block of base after I finish General Base 3, or let the TR AI work it out? I did select Adapt Plan when I put the sickness notation in but I’m not sure if it extended my plan or not.
I doubt you’ll be starting over. Take an easy week getting back into training, and just pick up where you left off once you feel 100%.
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I have 4 year old twin boys who get sick about every month. Combine that with a job that exposes me to pressure changes that probably don’t help my sinuses resist sickness I am consistently using the sick annotation. IME using the AI to adjust the plan is usually beneficial, if not very conservative. Once I am back to a healthy state I usually do 1-2 Z2 workouts and then I am back to my old self. I typically use the train now function if I feel the AI is going to easy on my workouts post being sick.
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Ive been sick for 5 years…coincidence my oldest is 5? I think not hahah
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The struggle is real.
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Maybe it’s because I’m old… I’ve never been a believer in multivitamins, but I started taking one this offseason to combat the kid-induced illnesses, and while I got one, it lasted only a couple days. Years past I’ve lost weeks. Could be coincidence… but I’m also enjoying higher energy and generally better mood since starting it.
I can’t eat tons of veggies - stomach won’t handle them, so I was probably lacking micros for a while and I do believe the multi has helped me. Might be worth a look for those with kids especially.
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A healthy diet with some vitamin supplements will definitely help, especially when combined with vigorously washing your hands.
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I’d let the plan adapt and see what happens. Take heart, as your kids get older they’ll get less sick. And if you’re a relatively new parent with younger kids, illness won’t hit you as hard once your immune system ramps up.
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I have 2 toddlers. No reason to stop training if you’re sick. I keep riding through a mild case of Covid. Just skip the intensity if you’re not up for it and ride endurance.
Once I asked my doctor if you should skip exercise with a cold and they said no, it won’t make you sick longer or have any effect. So long as you physically feel up for it, then do it.
If you’re going to be taking days or a week of every time you get sick, how do you plan to get improve?
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Some people get more sick than others.
My girlfriend, who I met through ultra running, is a school teacher and lately constantly sick. She did a threshold workout last week while sick, then didn’t leave bed all day Saturday. Half her weekend was gone because she didn’t have the energy.
Some people sick is “well, this is annoying” (which is usually me), others struggle with getting out of bed.
This
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I’ve been and currently deal with sickness regularly with our toddler. I usually just let adaptive training take care of it. Sometimes, when the sickness arrives during a rest week, I just make sure to pick achievable/low productive workouts to ramp into the following week.
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For the week I’m sticking with longer and more walks with the dog and saving my limited energy for work, self employed so no paid time off or employees.
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If I took off every time I was sick when my kids got me sick I would never train. Just have to learn what you can and can’t train through. Everyone is different.
Except no one can train through a stomach bug.
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Exactly right, which is why I cringe at blanket statements like the one made above, “No reason to stop training if you’re sick.” That is bad generic advice, in my opinion. Sometimes one or two days off to get clear of major symptoms can save losing a week by trying to train through.
I have a client who any time he feels any kind of sick wants to take a whole week off, and we work on that, because I agree that’s detrimental. But there’s a middle ground between “ride anyway” and “take a week off every time”.
My go-to rule is if I’m taking something to manage symptoms, especially some kind of anti-inflammatory, I don’t train.
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Agreed, my symptoms are still present and I’ll be off the bike until a couple of days after they’re gone. In my experience I’ve gotten sick again if I’ve returned to training too soon. When I was younger I’d do things differently.
I also need to factor being well enough for the family & work.
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I have a sore throat, slept 11 hours, goal is to sleep 10-12 hours next few nights to hold off the sickness.
Somewhere in there I will need to do some intervals
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