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- Howdy folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Yeah, we're the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Should you work out when you're sick?
We're gonna give you three guidelines,
this is very timely because
maybe if you guys are watchin' our videos last week,
Brad couldn't even understand me
'cause I had the low, throaty voice
dealin' with an upper respiratory cold type issue, so.
- Yep, and it's that time of year, January in Minnesota,
everyone in this part of the, you know?
- World. - World is aware of it.
- And you know it's interesting,
this is a question I started asking
in college already, Brad.
And back then they didn't have the internet
and people would tell me different things
and I, I never did know what the answer was.
- Sure. - So it's like, you know,
I thought this was really good timing.
By the way, this is interesting, over the last three weeks
I've had to deal with three major things,
well, major things in my life.
One, I had a cold, respiratory thing.
Two, I had shoulder pain. - Oh yeah.
- And three, I was getting some shin splints.
- All at once. - Yeah, all at once,
so I'm dealin' with all three
and we're gonna do videos on all three, so. (laughs)
- Well, things come in threes, they say.
- That's true, I hope it's all done.
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- All right, so let's start this, start this off, Brad.
The first guideline that a lot of people seem to, to
endorse is that you do a neck check.
And basically if your symptoms are above the neck,
like you have a runny nose, sore throat,
you can go ahead and work out.
But I, personally, I would not do a high-intensity workout,
'cause everything I was reading is that
a high-intensity workout actually
knocks down your immune system for a while.
In fact, like, if you do a really high-intensity workout
or, like let's say you're doin' a,
a triathlon or somethin' like that?
People, I guess, quite often get sick after events like that
because their immune system
is knocked down for weeks afterwards.
- Sure.
- So I don't know if you've ever found that
to be true or not, 'cause you do triathlons.
- Well, yeah, but I just do the sprints,
I have a feeling they're talkin' about
the longer-distance runs probably, you know.
A half Iron Man or even the Olympics.
- Even the sprint stall,
I'll bet you over the next couple days you're,
you're vulnerable, you know?
- Yep, if you really push it hard,
you can definitely, you're tired.
- Below the neck, so this would be body aches,
stomach problems, diarrhea, or respiratory congestion,
or bronchial tightness,
that's an instance in which you would not wanna work out.
Or very, very light workout,
maybe a walk or something like that.
I saw, I was listening to a podcast,
and they mentioned interestingly enough
that they have people actually take their pulse
and their oxygen levels, the O2 saturations.
You can buy one of these, this is a pulse oximeter.
O-X-I-M-E-T-R-E, right?
(laughs) Asking Brad.
- It's not a spelling show, Bob.
There, there, there.
- I know, but people are gonna ask, "How do you spell that?"
So these are very inexpensive, I, you know,
you can get these at Walgreens or something,
you know, a lot of drug stores have 'em now.
- Right, they used to be really expensive 20 years ago.
- Really expensive, they, they, they, this used to be,
I remember buyin' one for $600.
And now you get 'em for like 20 or 30 dollars.
So what you'd have to do though is you, you know,
you just put it on your finger and you push the button
and it's gonna give your pulse and it's gonna give you
the amount of oxygen saturation in your blood.
- Right. - And,
what you would need to do though
is to do this when you're healthy.
You know, and so you know what your,
your normal oxygen levels are.
I don't have oxygen right now, apparently, Brad.
- It usually takes, you know, 20, 30 seconds sometimes to--
- Well I'm gonna, I'm gonna just skip to
'cause I just did it, mine was 97%.
You did yours, it was 99%. - Right.
- And I'm guessing, ah, I'm at 99 now.
- There ya go.
- So I'm guessing that normally I am at that high level,
and I'm guessing that when I was sick,
it was like 96, 95, somewhere in there.
I mean it just, I wasn't gettin' the air.
I, my wife said she could even hear me wheezing sometimes.
- Sure, sure. - So.
- For reference, if you're not familiar with that,
anybody walkin' around that's normally healthy,
you're probably well over 95.
You know, with sick people, if you get below 90%,
you know, you'll probably have cannula oxygen
and, you know. - Yeah, supplementary oxygen
that you could be using. - Right.
- So I, I thought it's just a nice little hint.
It's not the worst thing to check on yourself anyway,
and it checks your pulse too, so.
- Sure. - All right, number,
the second guideline, number two, number B.
- Letter B. - Letter B.
If you have a fever, it's always no.
There's no workin' out.
Exercise can raise your body temperature,
your internal body temperature anyway,
and if you're already have a fever,
it's gonna make you sicker, so.
- I think you could do some stretching,
just so you don't get stiff. - That's a good one.
That's a good, I, I agree with you 100%, Brad.
Do your stretches, do, you know,
it's a good time to maybe do a, a yoga-type thing.
- Right. - But, but,
you're right, 'cause on the day I was, I felt the sickest,
I just woke up and I did a few stretches.
- Right, now if you--
- And then I went right back to bed. (laughs)
- Especially if you're in bed all day,
you gotta get the circulation goin',
but you're not gonna get a rollback.
- The third guideline I want you to consider is please,
you know, keep in mind your fellow exercisers
if you're workin' out in a public place.
You know, if you're, you're contagious
and you can't get through a set without blowing your nose
or coughing or sneezing,
I mean, people are not gonna be happy with you.
- No. - 'Cause yeah, I mean,
even if you wipe the machines down,
you're puttin' that spray out into the air,
you know what I mean? (laughing)
You know, generally. - Yeah, right?
You know, have you ever seen those videos or
things where they show where people have touched
and you just imagine the germs.
After you take a microbiology class,
you don't wanna touch anything after one of those classes.
Because, you know, and that's the biggest,
the biggest thing about spreading germs
is through your hands. - Yep, it is.
- By far. - And that's why they often,
you know, recommend if you sneeze, you sneeze into your.
Well I, I remember one of the doctors who used to
open his jacket up and he'd sneeze into it and then leave.
- Sure. - And
make sure yourself, you wanna wash your hands
and keep your hands away from your eyes and your mouth.
- Right. - Because that's
the entry points, a lot of times for these germs here, so.
The bonus here for this video is
you wanna ease back into exercise,
kind of in proportion to how long you were sick.
So if you were sick for three days,
kinda take three days to ease back in.
- Sure, that makes sense. - Know what I mean?
And the final thing is, what I've found personally, Brad,
is that, when you get sick, sleep really is important.
I mean, I, I, I, I mean I, luckily I, what happened for me,
I had a day last week that I didn't get called in at all,
so I slept all day long,
and I felt really good after that already then, you know?
And I think if I would've worked that day,
this thing would've dragged on further.
- Did you stay up all night, then?
- No, I worked, that's the whole thing.
I, I slept the night before long, woke up, slept all day,
went to bed early that night, and slept again.
So that's when you know you're sick.
- Yeah, yeah, if you're not one of those type of people
and your body's tellin' ya,
listen to it and get yourself better.
- I normally can't sleep that long, like you said,
I don't, been awake all night so long, so anyway.
- Wow.
- You know what Brad's little automat...
Thing that you always say at the end?
I don't even know what the word is for it.
Take care of yourself, you know.
- Be careful, be careful. - Be careful, there.
- I'm gonna say take care of yourself.
- There you go. - So that's gonna be mine.
Thanks for watchin'.