[jumper14]

jumper14 on October 25, 2004 at 12:22 am #9947

Don’t really know where this should go but thought here would be ok. I know antibiotics are not a supplement but anyway….. I have heard that you should lower training intensity/volume if you are taking antibiotics. Was wondering if this was a myth or if there was some reason for this advice? Is it to do with effects on the body or just that recovery time from the infection would be affected?

[QUIKAZHELL]

QUIKAZHELL on October 25, 2004 at 12:51 am #34299

Antiboiotics are taken to fight infection. Anytime you are sick ro have an infection of some sort you should lower training volume/ intenisity. The reason why is simply because your body/immune system is working hard to fight off the infection and if you are training hard while it is doing so it is trying to help your muscles etc recover thus not giving full attention to fight off the infection. So instead of taking 2 weeks to recover if you lower your volume/intensity you make only need 1 week for your body to fight the infection.
Hope this answered your question.

[jumper-aj]

jumper-aj on October 25, 2004 at 10:18 pm #34300

also i’ve found that if you train while your sick, your body doesn’t actually improve and you may actually decrease your levels of strength. I think the reason for this is that training causes muscle breakdown, which then causes the body to replace that muscle with new, more densely packed muscle thereby increasing strength. But if you’re fighting an infection, that takes priority over building muscle and i’m pretty sure there would be some type of a repression of the enzymes required to build new muscle, thereby maximizing energy needed to fight the infection, so in essence your muscle will break down from the training but it will be built back up so slowly that you’d be better of just not causing the breakdown in the first place.