I understand wanting to stay consistent with training, and clearly you felt like you could train since you went to the gym. I completely agree with the points you're making about exercise choices, being conscious of work capacity and obviously wiping down the equipment after you use it. Despite this, I think it's better if people didn't go to the gym when they're ill. Just like when you work out healthy, you'll still be breathing heavily performing your workout, perhaps even more so, and that breath is going everywhere. You also don't know how wide a berth other gym goers will give you to get past or hop on the opposite/adjacent machine. A sneeze or cough under normal circumstances is at best poorly contained. We don't always know if it's going to be "just a cold" or develop into something stronger in the following days that would make you feel incapable of going, and there's the potential to pass that on to others. Colds and other illnesses are, at best, an inconvenience to our lives. We're always going to catch them from somewhere, and we don't always have the option to stay away from everyone to prevent passing things on. We do have the ability to limit how much other people are inconvenienced though, and choosing to stay away from the gym is one way. We can still train at home/outside to some capacity if we feel we can. I understand that the effort won't be the same; it might be as difficult to get going and motivated to do a home workout as it was when all the gyms were closed; it will feel like we're losing consistency and progress with our training. Despite this, it would more than likely just be a week of training, which in the grand scheme of things is no time at all, a blip in an otherwise perfect run.

@TheJackedNerd.

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Very well put together response I agree with you, I have a bit of a biased experience since I’ve always lifted in pretty unpopulated gyms

There have been times I would workout while sick but i always been careful

Honestly if you got a cold you shouldn't go to the gym, a usually closed and crowded place, where you will definitely infect other people sneezing and coughing.

@TheJackedNerd.

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It’s a personal call my gyms aren’t that crowded and they provide cleaning equipment but I understand more public gyms

I don't know what's worse, training sick or training with a sunburn.

@TheJackedNerd.

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Pretend the sunburn is just muscle burn but yes honestly don’t know which ones worse