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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland and this is Fitness Disrupted. Should

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Speaker 1: you exercise when you are sick? Great question, I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you asked, and I've been asked this question forever and

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Speaker 1: it's a perfect topic for a fit tip. So here's

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Speaker 1: a quick fit tip. Should you exercise when you are sick? Now?

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Speaker 1: Let me say, back when I was a trainer working

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Speaker 1: with all those different clients, there were those would constantly

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Speaker 1: call it sick, constantly canceled, and they weren't that sick,

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Speaker 1: these certain people. But any reason, any sniffle sightest signs

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Speaker 1: of anything, they were done. And then there was the

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Speaker 1: opposite end of the spectrum, the type as who would

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Speaker 1: show up deathly ill, something that I could potentially catch,

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Speaker 1: and I would send them home. So should you exercise

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Speaker 1: when you are sick? Now? As a fit this professional,

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Speaker 1: many of us have used this recommendation for years. No

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Speaker 1: science I know of, By the way, It's rare that

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Speaker 1: I say that about something that we talked about here.

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Speaker 1: But the rule of thumb we've often said, is from

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Speaker 1: the neck up. If you're sick from the neck up,

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Speaker 1: it's okay. To exercise. If you're sick from the neck down,

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Speaker 1: you might not want to. So what does that mean

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Speaker 1: scientifically speaking? I mean, basically what it's saying. If you

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Speaker 1: are really fluish and like your body aches and things

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Speaker 1: like that, you're feeling like garbage, listen to your body.

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Speaker 1: It's probably not the time to go do a high

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Speaker 1: intensity interval workout. But if you've got like a little

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Speaker 1: head cold something like that, you know, getting on the

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Speaker 1: elliptical doing a lower intensity workout strength training, it is

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Speaker 1: probably okay. But the short answer is you gotta listen

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Speaker 1: to your body, and you always want to air on

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Speaker 1: the side of caution, Okay. Health and wellness is a marathon,

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Speaker 1: not a sprint, and it is not. There's so many

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Speaker 1: fitness people now and social media. There is no offseason.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about that. Yes there is, and you know

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Speaker 1: there are no rest days. Yes there are, and if

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Speaker 1: you're working out really hard, you're gonna need them. But

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Speaker 1: it's a marathon, not a sprint. So those type a's

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Speaker 1: you know, showing up to go too hard and just

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Speaker 1: get sicker, that's not okay. So it's about health and wellness,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna air on the side of caution. So

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Speaker 1: if taking a day or three off is going to

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Speaker 1: get you healthy, then that is exponentially better than pushing

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Speaker 1: it and being out for weeks, because then you've lost weeks.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty simple math and common sense to say,

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Speaker 1: listen to your body, and you have to be honest

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Speaker 1: with yourself. That's where it gets tricky, right, So clients

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Speaker 1: I knew over the years and worked with for a

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Speaker 1: really long time, I could tell and there were days

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Speaker 1: they'd say don't feel well and they look at them

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Speaker 1: and I got you're okay, or and or we're gonna

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Speaker 1: modify the workout. So that's where we're gonna finish up here.

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Speaker 1: So if you're kind of in between, you're not really sick,

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Speaker 1: but you're not great, it is the perfect time to

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Speaker 1: do what to mix it up, because mixing it up

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Speaker 1: is where true change comes. Doing many different things, all

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Speaker 1: the components of fitness. So if you're getting ready for

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Speaker 1: a high intensity treadmill workout and you don't feel well

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Speaker 1: that morning when you wake up, it's a perfect time

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Speaker 1: to switch it up. Do a stretch class, to a

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Speaker 1: stretch on your own, do a yoga video, meditate, focus

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Speaker 1: on the mental side, focus on your flexibility. Again, do

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Speaker 1: a strength workout. If you're getting ready to do you know,

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Speaker 1: some high intensity whatever type of cardio, maybe a lower

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Speaker 1: intensity strength workout is called for and your body will tolerate.

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Speaker 1: But again just go for a walk. The bottom line

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Speaker 1: is do something, Do something at a lower intensity, something different,

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Speaker 1: something that's not going to prolong or make worse what

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Speaker 1: your illnesses. But it's almost like an injury, you know

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Speaker 1: when I reframe it, when someone says, you know, I

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Speaker 1: broke my arm, and I go, oh, now, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: work on your core, we're gonna work on your lower body,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna work on your mental side. So you can

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Speaker 1: still do something. So take that time if you're not

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Speaker 1: feeling well and either sit it out or change it up.

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Speaker 1: And there you have it. Remember it's about being as

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Speaker 1: healthy as possible, and missing one workout today so you

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Speaker 1: can continue to work out tomorrow is the way to

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Speaker 1: do it. It's about health first and foremost. So there

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Speaker 1: you have it. I am Tom Holland this is Fitness Disrupted.

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Speaker 1: Hope you're enjoying. We're gonna have the shorter shows and

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Speaker 1: the much longer or not much longer, but longer where

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Speaker 1: we go into the research and have guests and things

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Speaker 1: like that. We're gonna do a mix of both because

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Speaker 1: here you go, it's all about variation, right, mixing it up.

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