Exercising While Sick...is it a good or bad idea?

I have always been curious if you should continue exercising if you get sick so I decided to do some investigating. Before I thought that when I got sick or when I wasn't feeling well I should take a few days off from exercising and physical activity until I felt 100% again but this article that I found proved me wrong. This article that i found said that the only way you should stop exercising is if you have a fever or your symptoms of being sick are below your neck. So if you are vomiting constantly or having diarrhea or your entire body aches then you should stop exercising or physical activity until those symptoms go away. If you are having symptoms of the common cold or symptoms above the neck such as a runny nose or a sore throat you should continue your exercising or physical activity. The only thing that is recommended with continuing your exercising during a cold is to reduce the amount of time that you are exercising for.

To find out more information about this topic you can visit this site: Exercising While Sick

A Wake-up Call for the MLB

This article that I found is all about an incident that happened during a Cubs baseball game. The batters maple bat broke into large pieces and one of the Cubs outfielders was punctured in the chest. This piece of bat just barely missed the player's lung. Even though his lung was not punctured he was hospitalized to prevent a collapsed lung. This has made the MLB think about the dangers of different kinds of bats that are used. In the article it says that these maple bats are much harder and when they break they break into larger pieces and disperse much farther than the softer ash wood bats. I think that this is an issue that needs to be considered more because of the risks that go along with it. This issue could become even more of a big deal if this piece of maple bat happened to fly into the crowd and punctured a fan. I found this issue very interesting because I am very interested in following sports and when I found out about this it incident I immediately thought that it was a great topic for my first blog post.

To read more about this issue follow this link: Wake up call for the MLB