{"id":608,"date":"2008-12-28T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T20:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:13:47","slug":"workout-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/workout-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Workout With a Cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the season when people start (or return to) a strict workout schedule.  It also happens to be cold and flu season.  So &#8211; no surprise &#8211; the question of working out with a cold is one I get periodically on the forums.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/25\/health\/nutrition\/25best.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exercising with a cold doesn&#8217;t seem to affect either exercise performance or severity\/duration of symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth: as long as I don&#8217;t have a fever, I&#8217;ve found working out to be generally beneficial&#8230;especially when I have a thtuffy nothe.  It may not be the best time to strive for a personal best, perhaps, but there&#8217;s no doubt that I actually feel better for doing a workout, vs. just sitting around feeling rotten.<\/p>\n<p>So, to make a long story short: go for it&#8230;don&#8217;t let a minor upper respiratory illness throw you off schedule, if it can be avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the season when people start (or return to) a strict workout schedule. It also happens to be cold and flu season. So &#8211; no surprise &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[396,610,1711,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}