Weight Training Weakens My Immune System

[old] FredrikJ · Post by **[old] FredrikJ** » January 10th, 2005, 6:24 pm

I have a strange problem: As soon as I start weight-training I get sick with sore throat and fever for a couple of days. With cardio it´s the opposite, my body feels energized. Is it due to the eccentric movements and the muscle soreness or what?

[old] Yoda1 · Post by **[old] Yoda1** » January 10th, 2005, 8:47 pm

Fredrik, Are you saying that after one resistance workout you feel ill? Or is it something that comes on after you've done a couple of workouts? If I may ask, what kind of work do you do to earn a living? Yoda

[old] gw1 · Post by **[old] gw1** » January 10th, 2005, 9:31 pm

FredrikJ, The only thing i can think of would be the quality of the air in the locating that you train. If you have lifted weights in a location that has bad circulation, or AC problems and / or not hydrated yourself adequately. If you've done your CV in the same location then that theory is shot to bits GW

[old] FredrikJ · Post by **[old] FredrikJ** » January 11th, 2005, 4:44 am

Hello Yoda! It´s enough with one workout with weights to make me ill. And I have tried this more than 15 times and the result is always the same. I´m a student. Hello gw! Nope, it´s not the air since I do cardio and weights at the same location like you said. It´s strange and verrrrrrry annoying! Altough I´m glad I can do cardio. What would I do without my darling erg?

[old] Kudos · Post by **[old] Kudos** » January 11th, 2005, 7:51 am

It could be possible that you go too hard when you weight train and therefore put yourself in weakend position. I know that for a while, just about everytime I went for a run I would get sick. I never really liked it, so I never did it unless forced, but was always pretty good at it. My team would go for runs and being quite a competitor I would run to win always. Unfourtunately this usually led to muscle strains in my calves, pain in all my lower joints, and a solid cold the next day or day after. Anyway, not sure how you approach weights and your erging, but this could be the problem. The solution is to go lighter at first and stick with it. But like I said many times before, if you don't like it-don't do it.

[old] Yoda1 · Post by **[old] Yoda1** » January 11th, 2005, 8:05 am

Boy, this is a new one on me. I've known folks that break out in hives from running, but I've never known of, or hear of getting a cold from resistance training. Kudos may be right, perhaps it's the aproach to lifting. Perhaps a doctor is in need here. Yoda