Are you recovering from Covid 19? Part 2

We’re here for another video of this series that has been highly requested, sadly due to demand, which is our top tips on how to effectively recover from COVID-19. If you so happened to have caught it, of course, hopefully, we won’t have to deal with it. But the truth is, the virus is out there and it’s out there to stay. Even if you’re vaccinated, though, there are some chances that you might catch it but there are things that you can do and things that you should avoid at all costs, which will allow you to maximise on your recovery, speed up the process, and get back to top form or even better.

As we always say, sometimes challenges can be a great opportunity to create new momentum, and actually propel us forward to an even greater place than we were before we had to face the challenge itself.

The first thing I invite everybody to do, who might have caught COVID is, rather than to view it as a stroke of bad luck, or a burden, view it as an opportunity to reset, to reevaluate, and to reignite your commitment to becoming your most fit healthy and confident self. That shift in mindset is gonna allow you to handle it in a productive way, rather than a destructive way.

We’re actually going to share with you some things that you should most definitely avoid at all costs if you want to speed up your recovery. And I will give you a nutrition tip, and then Eugene will share a fitness related tip. And so when it comes to nutrition, my top tip is to minimise or avoid the kinds of food which actually require the most energy for the body to process and digest and break down into the micronutrients it needs to fulfil it’s daily functions. And if you’ve seen any of my previous videos, you will have heard me say this before, at the very fundamental level, you can think of foods as two basic and distinct categories. There are foods which give you more energy than what they require for the body to process to break down so that the body can extrapolate what it needs and get rid of what it doesn’t. They’re foods that actually give you even more than what they require to be processed.

Then there’s foods who actually require more energy for the body to process than what they end up giving you at the very fundamental level. You want to think in these terms, especially at a time such as recovering from an illness, because that will make it so much easier for you to make the most conducive choices at any given moment.

If you think about it, if all food gave you more energy than you took, you will always feel energised after a meal but the truth is that that’s not the case. There are many circumstances when we actually feel more drained, more tired, more lethargic after a meal than we did before.

Think of Christmas, Thanksgiving, those are all circumstances where actually the last thing you want to do is bounce up and down after your meal, you want to lay on the sofa and knock that out. This is because you’ve consumed foods that require more energy than they give you, processed foods, animal protein, or any animal derivate for that matter, especially processed meats such as burgers, sausages, bacon, and dairy, eggs.

Those are all foods that require a tonne of energy for the body to process and that can lead you to feel lethargic, and so because during the healing process the body is trying to cut down on anything superfluous, anything that is not absolutely necessary for your recovery. That’s why generally speaking by the way, we tend to not have a great appetite when we’re sick because the digestive process takes a lot of energy and the body is shutting down and conserving the energy so that it can use it to heal instead and to fight the virus.

My top tip is to avoid those kinds of foods as much as possible and lean towards light and healthy foods that contain a tonne of nutrients but that are not too heavy to digest such as cooked vegetables. Fruit especially fruit with a high water content such as melon watermelon, pineapple, berries, but also bananas, I mean any fruit truly is great, even dried fruit is brilliant. And minimally processed carbohydrates such as noodles, rice, bread, pasta, try and minimise on a tonne of added fat is heavier to process and digest even healthy fats such as avocados, nuts and seeds.

Minimise as much as you can any processed food and all animal products and watch your recovery process speed up and you’re starting to feel more energised as your body battles the virus.

We know Covid virus affects the respiratory system, we know that and if it affects your respiratory system, it affects your strength and in some ways, your flexibility is affected as well.

Getting back your strength or getting fitter than you were prior, gradually increase your cardiovascular exercising by doing some brisk walking, and probably some light walking on the treadmill, that’s the number one tip.

The other tip is your strength has probably been affected because you feel weak and you can’t eat as much because your smell and your taste are gone. Gradually start doing some strength works like probably some push-ups. Probably some light rowing machine, but, anything that’s gradual.

First and foremost, don’t go headfirst in doing cardiovascular stuff because your respiratory system has been affected. I do recommend in tip one to gradually work your way into some brisk walking slowly gradually get the heart rate up and incorporate some light strength training. The best strength training is the strength training that has to do with the body on its own, like push-ups, that’s a really good one and slowly start getting, in addition to that, start working your core.

Your immune system is in your stomach, it’s your core. When we get sick, it always happens in the stomach first, so gradually work your way to doing core exercise. If you have any questions whatsoever, I can further elaborate on that.

In essence, the thing to avoid at all costs is going headfirst in doing a whole bunch of cardio, because your immune system has been affected. The thing to avoid at all costs is going too fast into the weight training gradually work your way into these areas of activity.

If you have any, specific questions that you’d like us to ponder, just comment, into the live video and we’ll catch those and reply as soon as we can, as soon as we can get to it, don’t hesitate. There’s no such thing as a silly question.

So if there’s anything in particular that you’d like us to discuss any questions that you’d like us to answer in future videos, just let us know and we’ll do our best. Have a great one and we’ll catch you soon.

Ciao for now.