Return from Illness

maryc said:

You obviously need to know what your normal resting pulse is first of all - it should be taken first thing in the morning when you wake up, before you get out of bed.

I have only had to use it a couple of times, when I wanted to train but wasn't sure if I was ready to due to illness.
In my case, my resting pulse is normally 60 - the first time I used it my resting pulse was 64, so I felt safe to train. The second time, my pulse was 85 - a pretty clear indicator that my body was too busy fighting infection to make any useful progress with training.

It's also useful to keep an eye on if you think you might be overtraining - a rise in resting pulse is one of the objective signs.

this is something i never thought about as in signs to over training, i've always trained to the extent that i can't bring myself to train. if my body says no then its time to take it easy for a few days, its usually within the first 10minutes or so that i realise that its time to sit it out and rest.

i agree that under eating is the primary contributor to overtraining along with a lack of sleep, especially if both continue over a number of weeks.

like! at the minute i have noticed myself heaving and being sick when my heart rate exceeds 190 for a duration of time, what causes that? it isn't something that was happening before i got ill, but it seems that i am over heating and settle when i cool, and i am sweating far more than i was before i got ill also.............. how can i correct this??????

maryc said:

You obviously need to know what your normal resting pulse is first of all - it should be taken first thing in the morning when you wake up, before you get out of bed.

I have only had to use it a couple of times, when I wanted to train but wasn't sure if I was ready to due to illness.
In my case, my resting pulse is normally 60 - the first time I used it my resting pulse was 64, so I felt safe to train. The second time, my pulse was 85 - a pretty clear indicator that my body was too busy fighting infection to make any useful progress with training.

It's also useful to keep an eye on if you think you might be overtraining - a rise in resting pulse is one of the objective signs.

Thanks!!
I assumed that a rise in resting heart rate would be the answer, but I wasn't sure how much rise would be the indicator. I appreciate you giving an example with your numbers.

closesupport said:

this is something i never thought about as in signs to over training, i've always trained to the extent that i can't bring myself to train. if my body says no then its time to take it easy for a few days, its usually within the first 10minutes or so that i realise that its time to sit it out and rest.

i agree that under eating is the primary contributor to overtraining along with a lack of sleep, especially if both continue over a number of weeks.

like! at the minute i have noticed myself heaving and being sick when my heart rate exceeds 190 for a duration of time, what causes that? it isn't something that was happening before i got ill, but it seems that i am over heating and settle when i cool, and i am sweating far more than i was before i got ill also.............. how can i correct this??????

I don't honestly know why you're being sick, but you might be overdoing it. You could carry on regardless and see if it settles down, monitor your resting pulse and see what that's doing (although you need to know your baseline) or you could see a sports/exercise doc.

Hope you feel better soon.

First ride yesterday after a couple of weeks and it felt great, but I could tell that I have some work to do to get back up to the level where I was at.

I only did a 20 mile ride at a mild pace on flat terrain and did a couple short sprints toward the end.

Now comes the work of starting light intervals and work up the next few weeks to the intense workouts.

The weather is great today so I believe I will go out and do some mt. biking for recreation.

Thanks to you guys that participated on this thread.

Felt_Rider said:

First ride yesterday after a couple of weeks and it felt great, but I could tell that I have some work to do to get back up to the level where I was at.

I only did a 20 mile ride at a mild pace on flat terrain and did a couple short sprints toward the end.

Now comes the work of starting light intervals and work up the next few weeks to the intense workouts.

The weather is great today so I believe I will go out and do some mt. biking for recreation.

Thanks to you guys that participated on this thread.

Don forget to take the easy days, i have a day off on modays, wednesdays i have a short recovery ride my rides tend to get harder as the week progresses, and look forward to my week of recovery rides every 4 weeks.

this is when i reacess my %MHR with 2 stress tests back to back in the middle of this week, with 2 or 3 sprint intervals.

Good luck on your future rides, may the forces be with you! 😉