<story><title>Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewizardofaus</author><text>Covid fatigue is no joke.&lt;p&gt;As an Elite Athlete I&amp;#x27;m training 20-30 hours a week. I got covid last year (triple vaxed) and it wiped me out for a good 6 months. It took me 3 weeks to be able to walk longer than a minute without needing to lay down for the rest of the day and sleep.&lt;p&gt;I have dealt with fatigue problems for 6 months and only just now, do I feel like I&amp;#x27;m getting &amp;quot;back to normal&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The most frustrating thing is alot of people are dismissive of the symptoms and generally say, &amp;quot;Oh yeah, I get tired too&amp;quot; but fail to understand the severity of it as they haven&amp;#x27;t experienced it.&lt;p&gt;I have a fairly good understanding of my body and the associated symptoms of overtraining&amp;#x2F;fatigue in a heavy training cycle but covid fatigue was soemthing completely different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_kulang</author><text>Similar experience — and interestingly it can be seen in my resting heart rate over time and VO2 inference on my watch. The acute fatigue was quite bad (and is what people seem to talk about) but the milder lingering fatigue reduced my running and lifting performance across the board and left me tired in the late afternoon rather than the evening. It’s not life altering per se, but it impacted my routines and productivity noticeably.&lt;p&gt;Thankfully after 5 months I seem to have kicked it fully, and am ripe for another infection. Needless to say I got the bivalent booster before the holidays</text></comment>
<story><title>Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewizardofaus</author><text>Covid fatigue is no joke.&lt;p&gt;As an Elite Athlete I&amp;#x27;m training 20-30 hours a week. I got covid last year (triple vaxed) and it wiped me out for a good 6 months. It took me 3 weeks to be able to walk longer than a minute without needing to lay down for the rest of the day and sleep.&lt;p&gt;I have dealt with fatigue problems for 6 months and only just now, do I feel like I&amp;#x27;m getting &amp;quot;back to normal&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The most frustrating thing is alot of people are dismissive of the symptoms and generally say, &amp;quot;Oh yeah, I get tired too&amp;quot; but fail to understand the severity of it as they haven&amp;#x27;t experienced it.&lt;p&gt;I have a fairly good understanding of my body and the associated symptoms of overtraining&amp;#x2F;fatigue in a heavy training cycle but covid fatigue was soemthing completely different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomWorker</author><text>That sucks. My experience was to get back to training fairly soon (2 weeks after fever went away). After that training session I knew I should rest more and took an additional 2 weeks off. Then built back up my regular training starting at 10% volume and increasing at 10% increases each week. After  3 months I was back to regular volume. My suggestion is that everyone take at least two weeks off, and build up volume very conservatively. I’ve had lots of conversations with other people that love to train. It’s hard to take it easy and do less because we love training, but this protocol seems to work for many. Maybe it’s too conservative and everyone is different.</text></comment>