Control your pace by breaking down activities into smaller, more manageable activities with rest in between
Plan your ahead
Prioritize what you want to do over what you would like to do.
If you experience fatigue while recovering from Covid, a referral to an occupational therapist or physical therapist would possibly provide other methods of managing this symptom.
You may feel fit to start exercising after your symptoms disappear, but to overwork, it’s important to wait until you’ve lost Covid symptoms for at least seven days.
Start with light intensity workouts, where you can breathe softly, converse, and feel like you can be active for hours, for 10 to 15 minutes to start.
Resume training only if you feel recovered from the previous day’s workouts, restarting, or worsening symptoms such as fatigue and soreness.
If you are experiencing more severe symptoms of covid, reach out to friends and family. They could be entitled to paid leave to care if they want to care for someone with covid.
If you struggle to control your fitness and other monetary pressures, touch your financial establishment to discuss payment plans.
If you work in a high-risk environment, such as health, disability, and elder care, you might also be eligible for more help from the government during the era when you can’t work due to Covid.
If you have persistent symptoms after your first Covid infection, schedule an appointment with your doctor to monitor your condition and refer you to other fitness professionals, if any, to manage symptoms.
While lately there is no medication to treat Covid symptoms, such as fatigue, exercise-based medical professionals, such as physiotherapists, can set it up with an exercise program and progress according to fatigue and help with shortness of breath.
Mahatma Gandhi was right when he said that “fitness is genuine wealth”, so be kind to yourself when you’re out of Covid.
Clarice Tang is Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Western Sydney University in Australia.
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