Boot camp & a bug
The bug came on suddenly: sore throat, runny nose, fever, achy, icky sicky. It was like it hit me all of a sudden after my meeting early this afternoon & only abated during boot camp when I figured I wasn’t just kicking boot camp ass, but was also kicking this stupid cold or sweating it out or frightening it away or something.
No luck. Boot camp ended, the high stuck around for a bit, but now the stupid cold’s back. & I leave for San Antonio on Wednesday, so it better be beat by then.
Funny story: tonight our trainer was also training an intern (I guess he’s in stage 2 of being a PT). So we did our usual grueling “warm up” that usually leaves me feeling like it’s time to go home already, thank you very much. Then we start in on a fairly simple routine: 1/4 mile run, 15 dead lifts (of about 90 pounds), 15 push ups, and 30 overhead squats (the overhead part is squating while holding a pole above your head, which is supposed to engage the abs, I guess). So we’re all doing different parts of the routine at different times, but we all have to finish the full routine.
So the first round ends & the intern comes back from his run while I’m finishing up the dead lifts & he looks bad. All white around the gills bad, all we’re about to see what he had for lunch bad. So Kathy’s worried he’s going to throw up, he leaves briefly to get water & I’m thinking, “does he realize we’re only in round one & there are 3 rounds to go?” Don’t think so. We ended up doing only 3.5 rounds & then heading up to the weight room to do about 15 minutes of ab stuff.
Sounds bad & I’m really a nice person normally, but I kept glancing over at the intern to get inspiration. The more he looked like he was hurting, the better, stronger, & healthier I felt.
So here’s the point to my story…the guy who is easily 15 years younger than me & studying to be a personal trainer…he really, really suffered through boot camp &, even with a terrible cold, I didn’t suffer any more than usual. Did you think I was gonna say, “even with a terrible cold, I rocked”? No, boot camp kicks my butt, I can manage, but I’ll probably never rock it. But tonight I left knowing that I did better & had an easier time of it than the intern & that feels like a personal victory.
Okay, I’m going to nurse this cold by turning off the lights & crawling into bed. I hate traveling, especially for work, when I’m sick, so it’s time to get serious here.
What’re your home remedies for the common cold? I’ll get chicken soup tomorrow, but I could use some suggestions for kicking this thing by Wednesday. This is an emergency situation chicks! Help!
It may be too late, but I use “zicam at the first sign of a cold” like the commercial says because I am just that gullible. Or desperate. Or both. Also, I am not big on vitamins but I take vitamin C every day.
And look at you! I am in awe of you and I would say that, yes, you DID rock it! I know what you mean. Once we were running and saw the reserves out and I sure did pull my shoulders back and hold my head high when I saw some of them looking like I used to when I ran. It put a little pep in my step.
I’m sorry that you’re sick. I love San Antonio. I generally detest Texas (after living in Houston for seven or eight years), but I do love San Antonio and Austin.
Safe journey. Hope you feel better.
I believe in high-dose vitamin C for a few days at the beginning of a cold. (I do about 3000 mg a day, but only then). No toxicity risk, you pee out the extra.
I also have these mysterious chinese herb pills that my mother gets from her doctor (a western-medicine doctor who is VERY smart and believes in taking the best of modern plus traditional alternative approaches). I have no idea what’s in them but they are magic. They taste horrible (i call them the crazy bitter chinese pills) but if you have a chinatown near you I can try to write down the name from my bottle. You won’t find them in a regular health food store…
Oh, and another thing that works is REST… always hard to comply with that…
feel better soon
I would say you ROCKED boot camp since you did it while sick!! And you did it better than the younger intern. GO BIGPROF!!
I have used the Zicam getupnow is reffering too, but it dries me out big time. Usually, I am a martyr and suffer through.
FRESH PINEAPPLE….didn’t believe it till I tried it but it works great on cold sympt. Also zinc–make sure you take it with food. Put a little Vicks under your nose and a warm moist cloth over your face and just BREATHE….I add a heating pad on low on my face and do this for about 10 min in the lazyboy. Chicken soup and some of the superfoods—blueberries, spinach, etc.
Good luck!!!
I have heard miracles about Zicam but haven’t used it. Personally, I love the Aleve cold and sinus. You only have to take 1 and it lasts for 12 hours.
As far as boot camp, how awesome that the guy training to be a PT had a tough time. You are an inspiration!
And, if you’re still feeling sick on Wednesday you can teach my classes and I’ll go to San Antonio. I speak Spanish so it would be fun for me to go there again
hee hee
man, I just love it that you got strength from the PT guy’s weakness. Shows how damn’ fit you are.
As for cold remedies…h’m. I take hot showers. Seriously. I take sometimes 3 or 4 in the day and I make em as hot as I can stand. Maybe it’s just because all that steam makes it easier for me to breathe, I don’t know, but they do make me feel better.
That and drugs. I go for anything with pseudephedrine in it. I know it’s not the friendliest drug in the world, but my theory is that I’m going to have the cold for a week anyway, so I might as well treat the symptoms and at least feel better while I’m still sick
It’s been five days. Are you better yet?