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Should You Exercise When You Have the Flu?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Maria Christensen

Exercise makes you feel good and helps keep you healthy, but nothing can sideline you faster than a bout of the flu. The flu is a respiratory illness often accompanied by congestion and trouble breathing. Under those conditions you generally shouldn't exercise or undertake activities that make you breathe hard.

Since 1997, Maria Christensen has written about business, history, food, culture and travel for diverse publications. She ran her own business writing employee handbooks and business process manuals for small businesses, authored a guidebook to Seattle, and works as an accountant for a software company. Christensen studied communications at the University of Washington and history at Armstrong Atlantic State University.