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Why Exercising Is So Tricky After Covid-19

Experts say not to resume exercise too soon. But what’s ‘too soon’?

Christie Aschwanden
Elemental
Published in
6 min readFeb 2, 2021
Animation by Maria Chimishkyan for Elemental

For Adam Harmon, Covid-19 began with a bad headache. Then came the fever and muscle pains. “I felt really achy for a day or two,” says the 31-year-old Park City, Utah–based endurance athlete. Harmon has been a triathlete, “semicompetitive”…

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Christie Aschwanden
Elemental

Author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery (Norton, 2019). Twitter: @CragCrest christieaschwanden.com