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[Robot_Teacher]

I was informed today by my young accountant not to be using the gym while I have a runny nose. She said it was wrong for me to use the gym and knows I've been over working myself as I am too tired. I'm not showing tiredness, but have runny nose syndrome.

I have no privacy. Everyone knows and talks about my getting sweaty in the gym. This is a small and I mean small town with only one gym. My movements are tracked and often questioned. This time I'm told I'm wrong in their observations of said movements.

I told her it is good to do what I feel like doing and I did take a 4 day rest from the gym during the worst part of my cold and now that I'm getting better, I'm back at moving my body to the grooves. And the beat goes on.

She said, she better not hear about my use of the gym as long as I sound funny like I'm talking up my nose because it's bad for me to over exert myself while sick. I say, "Well if I'm am good enough to go to work, then I'm good enough to go to the gym."

How silly is this?

[ryoga013]

she doesn't care about your health, just anything that can be blown back to them. If someone else gets sick after trying to go to the gym after 6 bottles of soju, you gave them the infection and they will blame you. They are just trying to stop that.

[tatertot]

I always thought that exerting yourself at the gym while sick would prolong the illness (energy your body could use to fight the illness is instead being used to break down/repair muscles) and your benefits from working out will be less than if you were exercising while healthy. I don't have any scientific data to back that up, though.

[Pwillig]

[michaelambling]

[TheUrbanMyth]

Working out lowers the immune system temporarily. Lowering the immune system while it's fighting off a cold is rather hard on it.

That said, if it's just a runny nose it's probably nothing to worry about

[harlowethrombey]

Go work out.

Unlike everyone else at my gym, I actually bring a towel so I can wipe my sweat off the machines. I also dont spit on the floor of the changing room or sit in a nautilus machine (just sitting, not moving) reading a book (!?!)

I dont think anyone in Korea is going to be giving waeguks pointers on gym etiquette.

[madoka]

Dude, if you still have a running nose, stay the hell at home instead of infecting everyone else. It's just freakin' common decency. I always hated co-workers that came to work sick. They got no effective work done and always managed to get others sick. If any of my assistants came to work sick, I immediately sent them home.

Common sense would mean that you don't unduly exert yourself until you are completely well.

[Taya]

[Robot_Teacher]

Oh yes, I've had runny nose for a week and a half, but last weekend I was so sick I slept alot for 4 days and stayed out of the gym. I got back into the routine on Tuesday.

I just can't take a week or 2 off over a common cold in Korea or at home. I did take Monday off, becuase I still felt really bad. Half of my young elementary students have the same runny nose and coughing cold. When they 1st get it, they take a day or 2 off and then they have the strength to go back to school while still having the cold for another week or 2.

[jdog2050]

[strange_brew]

[Ilsanman]

You paid for your membership. Are they giving you a discount or extending your membership when asking you not to come to the gym? Give them your shoe and tell them to *beep* it.

[madoka]

[madoka]