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Recovery of Aerobic Capacity after COVID

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  • January 21, 2023 at 5:45 am #74890
    Jon44
    Participant

    I had a case of COVID last April/May (2022) and feel like my body is just getting back to normal in terms of time it takes to recover from workouts. I had nothing else unusual (the COVID was severe enough that I couldn’t eat for 3 days and there were 1 or 2 episodes of extreme (“I’m about to pass out”) nausea/discomfort–but that sounds fairly typical).
    Just curious if anyone else experienced this.

    (And I’m asking here because it’s easy to imagine that if this was a real phenomenon, no one would have bothered to study it yet and it might not be picked up by the general, non-athletic, population.)

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    Al B on January 21, 2023 at 7:44 am #74891

    There’s a guy named Howard Luks on Twitter who writes/posts regularly. He’s a surgeon/Zone 2 guy who has been posting about his Covid recover for a couple of months. You might have to dig through his twitter history but, FWIW, I’ve found some of his posts helpful.

    Keymaster
    Jane Mackay on January 21, 2023 at 12:11 pm #74905

    Hi Jon44,

    Have you looked through our Covid 19 & Sports Med forum? You might find some similar experiences reported there. Also, if you want to repost your question there, Dr. Thomas Summer monitors that forum.

    Jane

    Participant
    Jon44 on January 22, 2023 at 7:05 am #74932

    Will do (let me know if deleting the post here makes sense)…

    Keymaster
    Jane Mackay on January 23, 2023 at 3:09 am #74979

    Since there’s a reply, you can leave this post here. People will see that the discussion has shifted to the other forum.

    Participant
    Rachel Nutting on January 29, 2023 at 9:00 pm #75194

    Hi!
    For what it’s worth, I practice cardiology and we see patients all the time who have noticed changes in exercise tolerance/stamina as well as some autonomic dysfunction after Covid. I know there’s various theories regarding root cause and research being done to determine best practices with treatment. Most people do improve over time.
    Best of luck!

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