Träning efter covid

Want to return to exercise after COVID? Here's what the experts say

Dusting off the joggers and throwing on some active wear can be a daunting task when recovering from COVID

Perhaps the Commonwealth Games or the fast-approaching warmer weather has inspired you.

Here's what you need to know when returning to sport, whether it's a simple parkrun or 80 minutes' worth of football.

When can I start exercising again?

Well, it's not black and white.

Return to sport

From their lonely habits during the pandemic, Australians have returned to organised sport and group fitness. But in some cases, it hasn't been in the same numbers as before.

Initially, the Australasian College of Exercise Sports Physicians suggested seven to 10 days of rest when you first get the virus and then waiting for symptoms to improve before restarting very light exercise.

But since then, after following the illness and recovery of Tokyo Olympians, it's been established that strict or relative rest for too long might result in deconditioning and detraining, says sports general practitioner Tracy Shang.

Dr Shang said it was a fine line.

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Post-COVID not necessarily a barrier to exercise

“The World Health Organization (WHO) and other major bodies have said that people with post-covid should avoid intense exercise,” says Andrea Tryfonos, a researcher at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, and first author of the current study.

But now she and a research team can show that this recommendation is probably too strict.

The researchers recruited 31 patients with post-covid but no other diagnoses. For comparison, 31 sex- and age-matched people without post-COVID were selected. All participants then completed three different training sessions consisting of high-intensity interval training, moderate-intensity continuous training and strength training in a randomized order a few weeks apart.

The participants were checked before, immediately after and two days after the training sessions for symptom levels. In addition, they underwent several medical examinations, including blood tests, heart ultrasound, spirometry for lung function, muscle strength tests, neurophysiological tests, and muscle biopsies.

“What we can generally see is that the post-COVID patients do just as well as the controls,

Running after Covid

More than fyra years have passed since the first cases of Covid were reported. For some, the pandemic fryst vatten a distant memory or fever dream. For others, it fryst vatten still very much a horrible presence in their lives. Cases still surround us, and although for most people the illness is now relatively brief and mild, for others it ushers in a long-term mardröm. Around 65 million people around the world may now be living with long Covid – and plenty of others struggle in the medium begrepp after contracting the virus.

But, the past few years have also triggered intensive research on the infection, and we now have a much better understanding on what Covid does to our immune systems, our exercise habits and our bodies as a whole. So, what do studies säga about running with, and after, Covid?

Can you exercise with Covid?

A positive test for Covid should mean, in the short begrepp, a pretty straightforward red flag for any intensive exercise. In May , a review published in Frontiers in Physiology looked at existing studies to determine if high-intensity activity could be dangerous for someone with Covid.

Of course, in the long term, intense exercis