That at least sounds like normal symptoms. I expected to feel bad for 1-2 days. Not feeling worse after 4 days and declining rapidly. swollen glands all in my neck isn’t normal for vaccines, though it is possible according to google.
I had to laugh. The doctor blamed H for bringing it home. I always blame H if I get sick and he gets mad.
Checking in again before Thanksgiving. Typically, holiday weeks are deload weeks and the program lightens up, which is wonderful, because the body definitely gets beat up.
Sunday, I ran my neighborhood 5K route.
Monday, was bench press and back squats up to about 80-85% of 1 rep max. The HIIT was rope climbs, 400m runs, thrusters and rowing. IIRC, it was a 17 minute HIIT.
Tuesday, I warmed up with front squats and presses and then a classic CF HIIT called Grace, which is 30 clean & jerks for time. I hit a PR of 2:54, which puts me in the advanced category. I was moving, but form breaks down with those last reps, which is not good and normally I wouldn’t do.
Today I deadlifted to a not-to-heavy double and then HIIT was a “classic” couplet of movements:
Deadlifts (bodyweight)
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Toes-to-bar
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
So, 10 deadlifts, 1 toes-to-bar, 9 deadlifts, 2 toes-to-bar, 8 deadlifts, 3 toes-to-bar, etc. And I finished in 12:10, which I thought was really fast, but I can’t remember my previous time, since its been a while.
I will run tomorrow, but not in the local Turkey Trot. I’ll just run on my own.
I did the same yesterday- ran my own Turkey Trot - I had the best time of anyone! 
Happy Turkey Day to all - May your plate be full!! 
Ha! I like that reasoning. I won my race too! Today was just to get my legs back under me. Easy 6-7 followed by 30 min on the bike. Then some abs and stretching. The rest of the week will be easy and I’ll get back to the real world next week.
OMG, I gained so much weight on vacation! lol And now I have to go see my mom, which always is bad for healthy eating. Oh, well. Back at it starting Wednesday, I guess.
Just checking back it. Whatever I had really kicked my butt. It was not flu/COVID (I got tested on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving). Our 3ish mile walk to dinner last night was my 1st meaningful exercise in a week.
I’m slowly loosing my Thanksgiving weight, now I need to eat more soup preparing for the Christmas feat. But the trick every year is Jan/Feb, I tend to put more weight during that time.
The past five days were just a big haze of wine, pie, cheese, stuffing, cookies…oh my. I also missed my tennis and pickleball all last week due to holiday preparations and festivities.
Back on the wagon today.
I have a house full of desserts that I need to not touch. I plan to freeze what I can and give the rest away (bring some up to my parents’ house and the rest into the office).
Back to my normal eating plan (heavy on veggies and protein with no refined carbs during the week, no restrictions on the weekends), and I’ll start back up with pickleball on Wednesday and tennis on Thursday.
Glad you are feeling better @jmnva06. Sounds like you got hit with the same thing I had 2 weeks ago.
Life happens. For now probably the best you can do is drink plenty of water and maybe sneak in a walk while at your mother’s house. In the meantime, enjoy more precious family time.
I also weighed myself this AM. Not meaning to be wise a$$ here, but last week was a programmed deload week for the Holiday and I lost 2-3 lbs from my most recent scan.
The only change from my diet has been exchanging my scramble for the “2-ingredient” banana egg pancakes for a few breakfast meals.
I thought I ate a lot at Thanksgiving, though I stayed legit with turkey, veges, salad, fruit and sweet potatoes.
I just keep doing my thing. Pickleball when the weather cooperates (usually 2 hours at a time, and we are playing “hard” if that makes sense), indoor biking or elliptical when it doesn’t, and we actually did an outdoor ride on Saturday. It was 54 when we started, and got up to 60. We won’t have many more days like that this year.
Instagram fed me up some content on the importance of being able to rise from floor sitting without using hands. That led me down a rabbit hole of youtube tutorials on the stand-sit tests. While I am able to stand hands-free if I am seated on my knees (rocking back onto my heels and then rising), I am unable to do it if I am seated in the lotus position. I don’t think this is something I’ve ever been able to do, regardless of the age of my joints.
So…I do love a goal. Going to be working on this one this week.
Have you tried any of the sit-stand tests?
I can get up and down off the floor without using my hands, but not necessarily in those ways. I looked at the test. Sitting in a cross legged position is tough on my knees, and I’d be afraid I’d tear something getting up awkwardly. I also can’t do it sitting in a ball and rolling up like they do in yoga. My ankles don’t bend enough for that. But doing a combo of lunging, kneeling, scooting side to side, no problem.
Hmm. I didn’t look up a video, but sitting cross-legged I can roll forward to my knees and get up without hands. Is that cheating? Am I supposed to just get straight up? If so, no way.
Same, sitting, roll up to knees and stand - no hands. But also I’m trying it in my office with a dress on so…but I think from complete sitting would be hard.
Also the opposite. Stand, no hands/arms, sit in squat/indian style position.
yes, supposed to go straight up, not using knees.
I definitely cannot do that without tumbling backwards. I’m going to work on the getting up part first and when (if?) I master that, work on the reverse move.
I would also say, do not “ride or die” on this move. There are plenty of other balance tasks you can work on and may already master. Survey your friends and I’ll be the vast majority of them in similar age group cannot do this. Or even get off the floor without assistance!
I can do stand to sit! Do be sure to have ample room around you before attempting so you don’t hit your head on a sharp corner if you tumble a bit!!! 
