Just Coming Off A Harsh Illness

Hey all,

 

I am just recovering from a very hard on the body illness. It appears to have been the flu + an upper respiratory chest infection + something the doctor's didn't know. I have been unable to work out for the past 12 days now. 

 

Luckily the first week I got ill was a deload week for me before I moved up to the next progressions, instead of a week of harder work so I didn't miss as much as I could have.

 

However I have lost around 11lbs of weight (I started the illness at 131) and much of it was muscle, so my question is should I be going back to previously mastered elements and checking on them, and remastering them if needs be? Or should I repeat a 4 week cycle and work on recovering lost strength that way? 

 

The other option I was considering was moving up to the next progression's and starting at a lower week than I would have otherwise, but that does not seem a good course of action to me. 

 

Right now I still haven't started working out again, but I plan on it today, just been focusing on stuffing my face again.

 

Thanks guys,

 

Chris. 

Go back and check at minimum, in fact safest bet is just to roll a cycle even two back if the illness took that much out of you. You can however accelerate the cycles as your strength comes back, by testing after a couple of weeks.

Thanks Cole, that sounds like a safer approach. It would completely defeat the whole point of me doing foundation if I let the foundation I've built already crumble just so I can keep moving forward.

Exactly!

keep going..  you are back strong in  2 weeks max..